Open Source About the People

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday June 17, 2006 @06:46PM from the shiny-happy-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InfoWorld has a nice look at what defines an open source venture. It seems that the main area of interest, and difficulty, rests with the personnel surrounding the project. From the article: 'But the muddier waters are around the personalities and commitment of the engineers who created the code. How long do they intend to stay? What is their level of commitment? These are fuzzy types of questions - but we know from history that when the core team of engineers that best understands the code up and walks out ... it tends to send a company into a death spiral.'"

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Re:Word of the Day: Switcher by Ash-Fox · 2006-06-17 19:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

real Mac user: someone true to who they are, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world.
Erik Harris and Dylan Klebold are outstanding Macintosh users it seems.

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How good is the locking here? by reset_button · 2006-06-17 20:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

An anonymous reader writes
I hope we don't end up with inconsistencies on /. because our readers are also writing.