ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup: OSBC Open Source Hot Spots

“The overall theme of the conference content was community.
Specifically, how to get it and how to sustain it for any open
source play. A lot of it was common sense stuff that was summed up
quite well in a conversation we had with Tim Bray of Sun
Microsystems.

“Sun’s approach to building community has been to first provide
actually useful software, making project governance models stable
and transparent, and most importantly, setting the project
completely free. Without releasing code from your direct oversight,
the sense of community around a project will never be strong, Bray
said…”

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