Boredom Drives Open-Source Developers?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 7, 2007 @01:15AM from the not-that-far-from-the-truth dept.

Henry McClyde writes "Chris Anderson of The Long Tail posted an article yesterday in which he claims that "spare cycles" — or boredom and the tons of people who wish they had something better to do — is what drives Web 2.0.... and the open source development community. While Web 2.0 in general is driven by "the long tail," NeoSmart seems to have taken up issue with Anderson's claims that open source developers (and other freeware programmers in general) do what they do because they're bored and have nothing better to spend their time on. Same with Wikipedia contributors, and bloggers in general."

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Salvation for Microsoft by the_olo · 2007-05-07 04:04 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's a brilliant idea: all that Microsoft needs to do to have opensource threat neutralized, is to regularly produce and release lots of interesting, geek-oriented movies on the net for free!

Just a hint for MS: don't use that crappy WMV format and use Bittorrent for distribution, not Xbox Live. Think about target audience.