Open source values: transparency
Values are important, in a business sense. When your values and those of your customers are in sync, you have a great opportunity for growth. They’re also important politically. They define the boundaries for internal debate, and establish markers for debate with opponents.
Transparency may be the most important open source value. Transparency is inherent in every release of open source code. The customers can see it, thus the vendor has no secrets.
But transparency also applies to a vendor’s operations. Vendors which are opaque on their strategy gain fewer benefits from a release of code. The most successful open source vendors are transparent on their strategies, and the most successful open source customers are transparent in turn, being frank about their needs.
Transparency, the need for it, the desire for it, extends outward from there.
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