How to think like open source pioneer Michael Tiemann (Opensource.com)

Opensource.com is running an interview with Michael Tiemann. "Make no mistake: For Tiemann, open source is not simply a business model. It's not just a method of developing software. It isn't an ethic. It's a Platonic form—perhaps something like a force, a tendency. Throughout history, many people have tried to glimpse it, if only for a moment. Tiemann knows he is but one of them: the programmer, the hacker, attempting to articulate, through code, this thing that abides. Failure to recognize the magnitude of what makes open source businesses successful, Tiemann says, is what has led so many to misunderstand them."

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