What business can learn from open source

Paul Graham, the renowned technical writer and programming language designer has an excellent essay entitled “What business can learn from open source”. Paul makes some interesting assertions:

• People have always been willing to do great work for free, but before the web it was harder to reach an audience or collaborate on projects.
• The average office is a miserable place to get work done.
• The basic idea behind office hours is that if you can’t make people work, you can at least prevent them from having fun.
• Many employees would like to build great things for the companies they work for, but more often than not management won’t let them.

Read the full article, it’s well worth the time.

Posted in Business, Open Source, Technology by Ivan