Why You Cannot Forge an Open Source Forge
One of the striking developments on the open source enterprise software scene has been the rise and rise of the forge. These are typically adjuncts to the main commercial sites that try to foster a vibrant developer community centred on the relevant open source code. It represents a distinct move away from centralised forges like SourceForge, towards what might be called “vertical forges” - if that's not too much of a mixed metaphor - aimed at a very specific group of coders. Here's the latest one:
Funambol, Inc., the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced that it has launched a new open source forge as a central collaboration site for mobile open source developers around the world.
Although proprietary software may try to create the same kind of community using add-ons, extensions and the like, it can never hope to match the power of truly open software.
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