[ Thanks to Leon
Brooks for this link. ]
“Starting from the <1>principle that we were intended to
be useful, and so have an instinct to seek usefulness, the author
seeks to <2>explain the phenomenal growth of the Open Source
and related movements. An attempt is then made to <3>assemble
a vision (seen as if dimly through a small window) of where this is
taking the computer industry and perhaps society as a whole.”
“The Open Source revolution revolves, I believe, around
threefold usefulness: the practical usefulness common (but not
universal!) in the published product, the inherited usefulness from
the background of the contributors, and also the personal
usefulness of contributing to a product.“