Thursday, January 21, 2010
Open source as infrastructure
On the last day of FOSS.in 2009, some of us gathered in the speakers’ hotel to hang on to that sense of wonder for just a bit longer. Ramkumar Ramachandra and I ended up discussing open source philosophy late into the night. Ram’s consolidated his thoughts from that evening into a pair of posts on open source as infrastructure and community and business interaction. Both were posted earlier this month, but I somehow missed them.
My own understanding of the infrastructure angle to open source comes from Doc Searls’s writing around 2001. Doc has a more recent write-up on understanding infrastructure (Apr 2008) that’s well worth reading.