Emlyn wrote:
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber:
> > I'm a bit involved in the Open Source scene. (From what I read on
> > this list I gather that for most participants here the Open Source
> > movement is rather obscure.) Collaborative projects there are
> > typically developed by teleworking only. Social interaction in
> > the flesh just isn't an option, so it works without.
>
> Thanks for posting this Christian (or should I call you naddy?). I know just
> a bit more than bugger-all about how Open Source is done, and have been
> meaning to find out more for a while. Of particular interest to me, it does
> seem to be a great example of the workability of teleworking.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ - especially The Cathedral and the
Bazaar - is one of the standard white papers on Open Source. Enjoy.
> Whilst confessing my ignorance of the implementation details of successful
> open source projects, I must say I'm not convinced by those people who push
> it as a silver bullet for software development, basically implying that the
> need for management dissapears. That sounds suspiciously like BS. I'd be
> very interested in learning more about the failures, actually; I imagine
> they shed a great deal of light on what's feasible and what's not.
Management does not completely dissapear, but it mutates...and there is
certainly a lot less of it.
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