{"id":11977,"date":"2009-12-02T00:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2009-12-02T00:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T22:29:30","slug":"on-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/02\/on-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"On Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An excellent comment<\/a> in regards to Open Source and SugarCRM. \u00a0Not one, but two awesome quotes. \u00a0One:<\/p>\n

In my eyes (and those of the open source community), the “high value” stuff is the stuff you can improve, and the “low value” stuff is the stuff you cannot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and two:<\/p>\n

I should also correct John Mark’s perception that slashdot is the be-all, end-all center of gravity for open source development. The beauty of the open source model is precisely that there can be many centers that collectively interoperate. Thus, Red Hat and Fedora, as two separate centers, both draw strength and network effects from the centers that are GNOME and Mozilla and Python and of course, Project GNU. None of these projects needs to “own” the others in order to create true value within its own center. Red Hat chose a path of letting 1000 flowers bloom, and that strategic decision allowed both a richer field (for the community) and a greater harvest (for Red Hat). SugarCRM can be successful without creating a monopoly of open source development. But it can also fail if it divorces itself from the open source values that make it one of the best alternatives to other proprietary solutions today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

An excellent comment in regards to Open Source and SugarCRM. \u00a0Not one, but two awesome quotes. \u00a0One: In my eyes (and those of the open source community), the “high value” stuff is the stuff you can improve, and the “low value” stuff is the stuff you cannot. and two: I should also correct John Mark’s … Continue reading On Open Source<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[2912,1538],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-open-source","tag-sugarcrm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t