A blog about collaboration, trust, open source, workplace, and community behaviors.
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Trust implies you are with me and not against me. But how to do you signal that you are trustworthy? Turns out that trust has two opposing elements. Sometimes it is about what you share, sometimes about what you don’t share. In my work, I encounter projects that must be kept protected from prying eyes. Yet, [...]
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An often overlooked benefit of open source is its impact on corporate culture. Open source helps corporations engender an ethos of openness which impacts more than code itself. At Yahoo! where I work, and elsewhere, I see three aspects of these changes: Information abundance changes the economics of information management. OSS can commoditize and standardize [...]
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In a world of limited resources, the path the wealth is to control the resources. What about in a world of surplus? I’ve been trying to understand the nature of surplus and how it impacts the digital age. So I’m going to share and ask for your thoughts too. First of all, let’s understand that [...]
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What happens on the inside gets seen by the outside. You think there are walls protecting your privacy. I came across two examples of this in the past two days — and this inspired me to share this thought with you. In both cases I realized that what you say behind the closed doors impacts [...]
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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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