[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“The people that are developing open-source software are
contributing a great deal to society. Complementary currencies may
hold the key to providing a method to reward those who
contribute.“The open source movement has made serious inroads into changing
the way business is being conducted throughout the world. In
addition to its obvious advantages of being a participatory
environment that attracts some enormously talented people to work
for free on a project, it also has the added benefit of spawning
its own market and user population as a natural byproduct of the
development process.“But probably the most important attribute of open source is
that it is a bottom-up design, meaning that people can customize
the software to fit their specific needs. There is no master
architect designing the software around what he or she perceives as
the way people will use it…”