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I concur. See my other comment. It's surprisingly very difficult to explain open source (what do you mean you share code with people for free?), forking (wait,
by chewxy 13y ago
I concur. See my other comment. It's surprisingly very difficult to explain open source (what do you mean you share code with people for free?), forking (wait, you let people change what you wrote???) to non developers.
I personally encountered this issue when explaining Fork the Cookbook to people. But what made this video cringeworthy is the total lack of research the journos seem to have put in.
- loganfrederick 13y agoI somewhat disagree. I think what you wrote in your parenthesis would work as an explanation of open source to plenty of my non-programming friends and they would have an idea of what you're talking about. Question to friend: You have an idea that computer software is written with code? [Typical person who has used a computer will respond with something like, Yes, I've heard of computer code.] Follow-up: Open Source is what we call sharing your computer code with anyone for free. Generally, nowadays, programmers can put their code online for other people to play around with. Sure, there's more to it than that, but that will give a non-technical person an idea of what you're talking about, and probably makes more sense than what Fox presented. All they needed to add for Github is that it's a company which makes this code sharing easier and more organized and there is business opportunity in making software development easier.