A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies

Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 21, 2008 @02:27PM from the careful-what-you-let-go-viral dept.

eweekhickins writes "The 'country' drop-down menu on one organization's donations pages omits Israel as a country and includes 'Palestine.' Among other things, this means that Israelis can't donate to the organization from these pages; it also presents the risk of a PR nightmare for the organization. This EWeek story cautions that while basic Web 2.0 technologies combined with open source can be incredibly powerful and productive, they can also lead to disastrous results for an organization that isn't paying close enough attention."

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Err.... what? by Morkano · 2008-06-21 14:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

Errr... what does this have to do with anything being open source? I don't think a country not being included in a drop down is really that dependent on developer methodologies.
This whole thing is pure FUD.

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