Here is the New Open Source
A recent column in The H Open posed a question: 'The "best open source software for business" list contains almost exclusively well-known contributors. Is there no more new open source?'
It's an important issue, because it picks up on a persistent line of criticism that goes all the way back to the famous 1998 Halloween Document, an internal Microsoft strategy report that offered perhaps the first deep glimpse into the company's thinking about open source:
When describing this problem to JimAll[chin], he provided the perfect analogy of "chasing tail lights". The easiest way to get coordinated behaviour from a large, semi-organized mob is to point them at a known target. Having the tail lights provides concreteness to a fuzzy vision. In such situations, having a tail light to follow is a proxy for having strong central leadership.
Of course, once this implicit organizing principle is no longer available (once a project has achieved "parity" with the state-of-the-art), the level of management necessary to push towards new frontiers becomes massive.
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