Blaise Zerega prefers bazaars to cathedrals. Five years ago this month, economist Brad DeLong asked a question central to the value of information technology. If the industrial age yielded the assembly line, what, he pondered, will the information age yield? “From a historical perspective,” wrote DeLong in a Wired magazine column, “it’s not at all surprising that we are thrashing about, still trying to figure out how to use these new tools most effectively.” By tools, he was referring to computers, software, and of course, the web. The answer, he hinted, was to be found in open source software.
Link: portfolio.com
Category:
- Open Source
