Father of Wiki Speaks on Collaborative Development

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 20, 2006 @05:32PM from the many-helping-hands dept.

An anonymous reader writes "eWeek is reporting that Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki, has predicted an encouraging future for open source and collaborative development. From the article: "Cunningham, who is director of committer community development at the Eclipse Foundation, said open-source software will continue to grow and thrive because it enables user innovation. '[...] No end user wants to be a programmer; they just want to get their jobs done,' he said. But more and more people with powerful tools and powerful languages will be able to work together to build better systems, he said."

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Question - yes, me in the back! by Anonymous+Crowhead · 2006-03-20 17:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Excuse me, uh, Ward Cunningham - you know it just struck me - your first and last name are shared by two pop-culture culture icons who also live idealic lives - Ward Clever and (Take your pick) Cunningham. Anyway, back to my question - what's it like in that ivory tower and where do you get your back scratchers?