22 Jan
2010
22 Jan
'10
10:12 a.m.
Danie Roux wrote:
Clay Shirky has been commenting on this since 2003. Contributions to any open source project follows the same power law distribution.
That is the power of open source: The fact that someone makes only one commit to Squeak trunk ever, is of no importance.
Whether that fix was a *good* and *useful* fix is what is important. A lot of value is to be had in the long tail :-)
For more, watch this: http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.ht... Read this: http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Folks, this truly is a must-watch.
Cheers, - Andreas