On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 14:46 +0000, Benjamin Ducke wrote: > Hi Nikos, > > these are important issues that are being evaluated and re-evaluated > all the time. If your university library has it, then this publication > might > be an interesting read for you: > > Joseph Feller (ed): Perspectives on Open Source Software (MIT Press > 2005). > > It looks into pretty much all the questions you have posted here. > > Best, > > Ben
I got the book. I admit I didn't expect a book which expands on a variety of issues and, more important, that it does present argumentations for/by both open and closed source *stuff*. I even was impressed by the term "shared source" which I've heard only once before. Oh, really, the questions are too many. But it's worthwhile (actually I would say it's an absolute *must*) to invest time to deal with "basic questions". One more comment: The book starts with Part I (4 Chapters): "Motivation on Free//Open Source Software Development" which is (should), in my humble opinion, (be) a *key* political question. The big misconception(s) of todays societies, if of course one accepts that there are such, might be(is) exactly that: the established systems _fail_ to capture the human entity in its totality (needs, desires, dreams, creativity, etc.) and, equally important, fail to recognise (the fact of) our *social* nature. That is, they fail to understand the "motivation" which keeps persons going. Due to ignorance, due to foolishness or on purpose? While I can't judge the (collection of articles of this) book in its totality (since I just got it), I have the impression that some ideas presented are exactly based on such misconception(s). And this is what strengthens prophetical statements about the future of _anything_ against rational understanding and decisions. Thank you Ben for recommending the book. Kind regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
