Boston Globe: Finding More Than 'Free Love' at Open Source's Core
Mar 18, 2003, 20:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by D.C. Denison)
"The networking diagram, with spidery lines connecting
multicolored nodes, looks like a map of an urban phone system or a
cluster of connected computers. In fact it displays the most
frequent contributors to Linux, the open-source operating system,
with different colors indicating the number of contributions each
has made. The three members of the Boston Consulting Group's
Strategy Practice Initiative, who are sitting in one of the firm's
conference rooms in downtown Boston, spend a few minutes pointing
out some of the most interesting patterns, then click to a second
slide, a fever line that captures another view of the Linux
community. The new image inspires another round of commentary.
"Robert Wolf, Philip Evans, and Mark Blaxill have plenty to say
on the topic of Linux. They've been studying it, and open source in
general, for more than two years to see whether more general
lessons can be learned from the phenomenon. When I stopped by
Wednesday night, the three sounded optimistic that they were on to
something..."
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