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What I have noticed is that once smart people are exposed to open source programming they have big problems going back to the modus operandi of closed source.
by gioele 13y ago
What I have noticed is that once smart people are exposed to open source programming they have big problems going back to the modus operandi of closed source.
A good middle-ground seems to be doing like github: you keep working on your closed projects using open-source technologies and methodologies.
- general_failure 13y agoHuh? Github is not open source. It does not promote open source methodologies or technologies.
- Intermernet 13y agoNo, but it bases it's primary service, and the first half of it's name on an open source project. Admittedly, it does a lot more than that as well, and I love it for what it is, but it couldn't really exist in it's current form if it weren't for open source. EDIT: In addition, almost all of the public code on Github is open source, and they have a bunch of open source repositories themselves. https://github.com/github https://github.com/github
- zanny 13y agoGitorious is though, so I always recommend it, even though it doesn't have a lot of the baked in features of github.
- jonknee 13y agoGitHub has released a lot of open source code: https://github.com/GitHub https://github.com/GitHub
- Karunamon 13y agoUh.. what? Github is probably the place to put your code nowadays.
- gioele 13y agoIndeed my point was that Github itself is not open source but uses open source technologies (git and various bots) and methodologies (distributed team, lazy coordination, it ships when it is ready). Have a look at http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-uses-github-to-build-github/ http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-uses-github-to-build-g... for more information. I think this open-source-like way of operating makes their great coders happy to work on a closed source project.