Adventures in Open Source » “Open Source” is not a Marketing Term

Tarus Balog of the OpenNMS Group is a little exercised, and justifiably so, about a new crop of firms that see “open source” as nothing more than a marketing buzzword:

Open source software development is not just about providing the source code for your application. It is much more about building a community around a shared project. That takes time. I think the biggest myth about open source software is that you say “hey, I’m open source now” and suddenly thousands of qualified people give up nights and weekends to work on your code. You can’t stick nine pregnant women in a room for a month and get a baby, it just doesn’t work that way.

But some people are trying.

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You can’t hang a tarp in front of a cathedral and have it become a bazaar.

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