A blog about collaboration, trust, open source, workplace, and community behaviors.
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It’s my second blogaversary. Over the past two years I have shared with you thoughts on the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace, as well as thoughts on Open Source, Personal Branding, and other random musings on technology, culture, and workplace behaviors. I have published 130 posts so far (averaging just over one post a week), and received well [...]
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Continuing the thoughts from my previous post on OpenWashing… If openness is so good, why don’t tech companies simply share all their software code? Open Source is “a good thing” so why not opensource it all — going whole-hog? I get asked this question every so often. Funny, since I also get asked “Why would a company give anything [...]
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Recently someone asked me about OpenWashing. Let me share my thoughts here. OpenWashing is a derogatory term for companies who pretend to “do open source.” (We’ll discuss what that could mean.) The term is related to WhiteWashing (censoring information in order to “fix” history) and GreenWashing (portraying your product to be more environmentally sensitive than it [...]
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The speech I linked to in my last post highlighted three social forces: the hierarchical delegation of power via governance the horizontal dispensation of wealth via the marketplace and the social behaviors associated with community membership. The third force, the Community, operates differently than the other two – as it does not manage contractual goods [...]
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As I passed the clearance table at the bookstore, I saw a book whose title caught my eye, and was cheap – so I mindlessly grabbed it on my way to the checkout line. At home I found that it was by a Methodist minister, and was about leadership challenges in a diverse congregation. Turns [...]
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I was in a meeting last week with people arguing about certain specific legal issues in the Open Source world. It was clear to me the argument was not easy to resolve because the parties came from opposing world-views. Not being afraid to discuss “Weltanschauung” in this blog, drawing from many philosophical, anthropological, and religious ideas, [...]
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Open Source, at it’s core, is a legal matter. Most people in the Open Source community don’t see it that way. But consider this. This is code. class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(“Hello World!”); } } If this was a bit longer and not so common it would be an example of “proprietary code” owned by my current [...]
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