NewsForge: Does ‘Community’ Still Exist in Open Source?

“The nature of the open source community is changing. I’m not
exactly sure what ‘open source community’ means anymore. When I
first got involved with open source in 1998/99, the community was
distinct: It was Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Robin Miller, and
others like them. Developers. Gear heads. Hackers. Today, it’s
unclear whether that community still exists in any separate,
discernible form.

“Look at their former haunts (Apache and Linux mailing lists,
among others) and you may still find them, but many have been hired
by Novell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, or some corporation, including a
range of startups interested in cashing in on the open source gold
rush…”

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