Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Andelin skrev:
> I think I understand companies like Red Hat & Novell which are at the top of multi-level marketing pyramids.  I understand the appeal of open-source to Red Hat wanabees.  But I don't understand the appeal of open-source for coders who actually create the IP and donate it to wanabee's repositories.
>   
I have found Eric Raymonds writings very enlightening.  He has been 
groundbreaking in putting words on things that were so basic that either 
you intutively understood it, or you didn't have ANY idea at all, which 
Richard Stallman is a prime example of.

He wrote The Cathedral and The Bazaar which made Open Source 
understandable to non-programmers (quite a feat),  Settling the 
Noosphere (about Open Source ownership projectwise, not legal wise), and 
The Magic Cauldron (about the economics of OpenS ource).

It is the latter I would suggest you read.  I took a look at it here, 
and frankly I do not understand it fully, but perhaps you do as I 
believe many of the things are culturally American due to capitalism and 
all.

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/