I really must start posting a bit more often, but I seem to have a serious dose of writers block at the moment.
This is an interesting (if old) blog post that caught my eye and made me stop and think. It’s amazing how the things we build / ideas we put forward can be reapplied outside of their intended fields with unforeseen consequences. For example, the ideas of the free software / open source (delete as applicable) have been adopted by terrorist networks.
You can find more details here: “Bazaar Dynamics“, but this is the first I’d heard of this. It’s fascinating and shows how a small network of people can take on a large well equipped force and stand a reasonable chance against them, though admittedly, this isn’t the example I like to give. The actual progress of the Free Software community itself is a far better and more peaceful demonstration of this principle.
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