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Exactly. "Citizen-owned" is half-right. FOSS gets you the rest of the way.
by jrm4 5y ago
Exactly. "Citizen-owned" is half-right. FOSS gets you the rest of the way.
- specialist 5y agoFOSS is the start. Then comes governance, culture, etc. Bryan Cantrill's "Power to Fork" thesis is relevant. http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/08/03/opensolaris-and-the-power-to-fork/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/08/03/opensolaris-and-the-p... Sadly, I lived that experience on another FOSS project. Wish I had heard Cantrill before I committed to that effort. I'm also deeply influenced by Pieter Hintjens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens#Bibliography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens#Bibliography Ditto Clay Shirky, eg Here Comes Everyone. Nadia Eghbal's research is on my reading list. https://nadiaeghbal.com/oss/ https://nadiaeghbal.com/oss/ Having just skim read, it looks very insightful, cogent.