Geez, what side of bed did you get up on. That was my point. I'm sorry I didn't specifically spell it out. It's great that you were quick enough to see that someone who wanted to play could annoy people with this. Gee, mebbe that's why it's regulated so there's not complete chaos. Where would the world be without someone to point out the obvious.
Seems excessive, but if you lived in an apartment complex, you could have some serious fun with one of these things broadcasting to the station your neighbor happens to be listening to.:)
I know that the article wasn't talking merely about open source, but this is slashdot, and everything relates to open source.:) Living in the US, working at a corporation, I can't ever see things like "intrinsic motivation" or "altruism" coming in to play. As great as the user-community around open source is (and i'm constantly amazed at the quality of software that comes out), open source won't gain wide-scale acceptance until major corporations take to it. Like IBM seems to be. Corporations exist for only one reason, money. If they can't make money with open source, it will be dropped and return to being just a hobby for us geeks who program for fun not profit.
As for the article in a more general sense, I'm still not sure what his point was. That people make open content because they enjoy it? Seems someone should have refined his thesis a bit more, and yes, I did RTFA. Twice even. (it's a slow day at work)
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Geez, what side of bed did you get up on. That was my point. I'm sorry I didn't specifically spell it out. It's great that you were quick enough to see that someone who wanted to play could annoy people with this. Gee, mebbe that's why it's regulated so there's not complete chaos. Where would the world be without someone to point out the obvious.
Seems excessive, but if you lived in an apartment complex, you could have some serious fun with one of these things broadcasting to the station your neighbor happens to be listening to. :)
I know that the article wasn't talking merely about open source, but this is slashdot, and everything relates to open source. :) Living in the US, working at a corporation, I can't ever see things like "intrinsic motivation" or "altruism" coming in to play. As great as the user-community around open source is (and i'm constantly amazed at the quality of software that comes out), open source won't gain wide-scale acceptance until major corporations take to it. Like IBM seems to be. Corporations exist for only one reason, money. If they can't make money with open source, it will be dropped and return to being just a hobby for us geeks who program for fun not profit.
As for the article in a more general sense, I'm still not sure what his point was. That people make open content because they enjoy it? Seems someone should have refined his thesis a bit more, and yes, I did RTFA. Twice even. (it's a slow day at work)