Slashdot: Web Services and Open Source at OSCON

“I spend a lot of time with my head buried in code, and every
time I pick my head up it feels like the future is closer than I
thought. So I like coming to OSCON. A week of looking ahead leaves
me more confident I won’t get future shock anytime soon. OSCON,
like all conferences, is aimed at corporations, the intangible
entities that send humans as their proxies. But open source has its
roots in individuals working outside the corporation for their
community of programmers. Are the two cultures coming together, or
colliding? And how will the ‘open source ideal’ evolve, as the
chief social act of programming changes from trading disks of
source code to processing each others’ data and mashing up web
APIs…?”

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