Do You Grok Open Source?

“Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, in the 1961 science
fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, coined the term ‘grok.’
In the story the word was part of the Martian language:

“‘Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer
becomes a part of the observed–to merge, blend, intermarry, lose
identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we
mean by religion, philosophy, and science–and it means as little
to us (because we are from Earth) as color means to a blind
man…”

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