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Open Source Revolution
By Jeremy | August 16, 2006
"'I was this near-dropout,' explained [Brian] Behlendorf [an Open Source pioneer]. ... 'None of us had the time to be a full-time Web server developer, but we thought if we could combine our time and do it in a public way, we could create something better than we could buy off the shelf -- and nothing was available then anyway. ... That was the beginning of the Apache project.'"On bottom-up leadership:
"Behlendorf and his open-source colleagues -- most of whom he had mever met but knew only by email through their open-source chat room -- had created a virtual, online, bottom-up software factory, which no one owned and no one supervised. 'We had a software project, but the coordination and direction were an emergent behavior based on whoever showed up and wanted to write code."On reaching the tipping-point:
"Because of Apache's proficiency ... it began to have a commanding share of the Internet Service Provider market.' ... IBM was trying to sell its own proprietary Web server ... but it gained only a tiny sliver of the market. Apache proved to be both better and free. So IBM decided that if it could not beat Apache, it should join Apache. So the world's biggest computer company decided that its engineers could not best the work of an ad hoc open-source collection of geeks, so they threw out their own technology and decided to go with the geeks!"On why it worked:
"IBM saw the value of having a standard vanilla Web server architecture -- which allowed heterogenous computer systems and devices to talk to each other, displaying e-mail and Web pages in a standard format -- that was constantly being improved for free by an open-source community. The Apache collaborators did not set out to make free software. They set out to solve a common problem -- Web serving -- and found that collaborating for free in this open-source manner was the best way to assmble the best brains for the job they needed done."On the future:
"There is no future in vanilla for most companies in a flat world. A lot of vanilla making in software and other areas is going to shift to open-source communities. For most companies, the commercial future belongs to those who know how to make the richest chocolate sauce, the sweetest, lightest whipped cream, and the juiciest cherries to sit on top, or how to put them in a sundae."There are so many rich nuggets in this for the rest of us. When I have more time ...free movies female orgasmmovie clips free rapemovies free-handjobmovies hardchi movies hsuof list movies oldtheme mp3 moviesex hilton movies paris Map
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