Re: Why open source?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Keep an eye out for a cloud based i developer initiative.

Hint: http://www.idevcloud.com

That should go a long way to eliminating the problem with a developer 
working on the corporate systems, etc.......

Jim Oberholtzer

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CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 6/3/2010 4:48 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
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> > From: Aaron Bartell
> > Awhile back we had discussion about why in the heck someone would
> > want to give away source without much, if any, monetary or business
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> I could relate to the video, too.  Individuals pursuing activities that require thinking, and especially creativity, need and value autonomy and self-direction.  And we're willing to sacrifice money, for it.
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> But individual ownership is a big motivator, too; reaping from that which you sew; which may not mesh with your ideas about open-source.  How would you reconcile that?
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> BTW, I appreciated your comment on Steve Wills blog, as well as other places, promoting the idea of micro-partitioning IBM i servers in small enough slices, that individual programmers might afford autonomy, self-direction, and individual ownership of work product.  Too many IBM i programmers are stuck with working only on employer's servers, where the employer controls the manner and means, so to speak.
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