One of my earliest conversations with a prominent member of the free software movement (who I’ll keep anonymous) involved him sputtering angrily at the idea that open source had anything to do with the developers who produce it. He told me that code is “anarchist” and “untouchable,” and that it must be able to survive beyond any one person’s desire
... See moreNadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation, as several scholars have shown. MIT management professor Karim
Daniel H. Pink • Drive
The irony here is that the internet is a machine for solving collective action problems. Wikis let millions of people coordinate their labor to produce all manner of materials (most notably, the greatest encyclopedia the world has ever seen), and source-control systems like git let large numbers of people collaborate to build software together (mos... See more
Medium • How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms
In the end, the fragile balance of open source—that unlikely blend of personalities and incentives that has driven tech’s innovation engine throughout the 21st century—won’t be upset by the odd state actor, or by malicious spam, or whatever scary new thing The Register is up in arms about tomorrow. It can only be disrupted when the community comes ... See more