Book Review of Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source Software" (Groklaw)
Groklaw is running
a review of the book
Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel.
The book focuses on the social environment of
open-source project development.
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Groklaw regulars may feel some familiarity in the situation described in this quote from Chapter 6: The really difficult cases are people who are not overtly rude, but who manipulate or abuse the project's processes in a way that ends up costing other people time and energy, yet do not bring any benefit to the project. Such people often look for wedge points in the project's procedures, to give themselves more influence than they might otherwise have. This is much more insidious than mere rudeness, because neither the behavior nor the damage it causes is apparent to casual observers."