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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "David S. Bennahum" <davidsol@panix.com>
Subject: economics of free software
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Stephen Commiskey wrote:
>Has anyone participated in thorough discussions on this topic? What is the critical mass of programmer time that makes an open-source project succeed, regardless of the number of free riders? I'd like to hear list members' opinions on this, although I fear it may be too far off the topic of the list. Feel free to email me privately; I'll collect and post any on-topic gems that arise.
So far this on-topic, so feel free to reply to the list. If it veers off, we'll figure that out later. I am interested to hear of *personal experiences* running an open-source project. Has anyone here done so? Or been involved with such a project? What lessons/insights were gained from that experience?
/d
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "David S. Bennahum" <davidsol@panix.com>
Subject: economics of free software
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Stephen Commiskey wrote:
>Has anyone participated in thorough discussions on this topic? What is the critical mass of programmer time that makes an open-source project succeed, regardless of the number of free riders? I'd like to hear list members' opinions on this, although I fear it may be too far off the topic of the list. Feel free to email me privately; I'll collect and post any on-topic gems that arise.
So far this on-topic, so feel free to reply to the list. If it veers off, we'll figure that out later. I am interested to hear of *personal experiences* running an open-source project. Has anyone here done so? Or been involved with such a project? What lessons/insights were gained from that experience?
/d
CM Moderator
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