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Re: "What Business Can Learn From Open Source"



* Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> [050804 16:16]:

> 
> I found this on slashdot.  Very good essay based on a talk from Oscon
> 2005, <URL:http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html>.
> 
>   [...]
> 
>   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.
> 
>   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!
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