The Register: The Sophist and the Open Source Baking Farce

“One of the biggest threats to open source software has arisen
from a most unlikely place–the food and beverage industry. Steve
Gundrum, CEO of food engineering house Mattson, has teamed with
sophist and celebrity author Malcolm Gladwell to bastardize the
fundamental concepts behind open source software development,
turning the OSS idea into nothing more than another term for
inefficient collaboration.

“Worse, the two gentlemen have opened a huge front for
proprietary software advocates to rally around the cry that open
source is just a trendy fad. And they did all this simply by baking
a cookie…”

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