Re: "What Business Can Learn From Open Source"
* Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> [050804 16:16]:
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> I found this on slashdot. Very good essay based on a talk from Oscon
> 2005, <URL:http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html>.
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> [...]
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> I think the most important of the new principles business has to
> learn is that people work a lot harder on stuff they like. Well,
> that's news to no one. So how can I claim business has to learn it?
> When I say business doesn't know this, I mean the structure of
> business doesn't reflect it.
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> Business still reflects an older model, exemplified by the French
> word for working: travailler. It has an English cousin, travail, and
> what it means is torture. [2]
>
> [...]
>
> It go far in explaining why free software work as well as it does.
thanks Petter, realy nice article, good for promotion ;-)
Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Viele Gruesse!
Kurt Gramlich
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