You've surely read plenty about how simple is good, but what's wrong with easy?
Making your open source project newcomer-friendly
One reason I really like open source is that it offers a lot of great opportunities for newish programmers to get some hands-on experience with real world problems. There’s only so much one can learn …
Open source is 20: How it changed programming and business forever
"The reward of victory is often another set of battles."
Why designing for open source can be so difficult
I design interfaces and ship the code myself. Portfolio and writing from Gilli Sigurdsson.
I hate the term “open source”
It doesn’t accurately reflect how people are building today anymore.
The Rules of Open Source No Longer Apply | Built In
When free software first gained traction, the world looked very different.
Open Source is Broken
The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns. Openness, they claim, is an absolute good, from which all other virtues flow, not to be questioned or criticized. It doesn’t matter if that openness enables evil in the world, without openness we
Open Source is Not Enough
by James Halliday // The open source movement has fundamentally changed how software gets written. But in the process, corporations have been given a vast gift of free labor.
Why open source: 25 reasons to embrace it | Ben Balter
Open source isn't a fad. Here are twenty-five economic, moral, and personal reasons your organization should embrace it.
We Need More Open Source in Gaming | Andreessen Horowitz
When it comes to free software, there’s a sharp cultural divide between the tech world and the gaming world. It’s normal for a startup to make heavy use of open source, and it’s normal for a big tech company to give away huge codebases for free. This is because the tech world understands the benefits...
Why Open Source Failed
(If you like this essay, you may be interested in my follow-up, “Save Open Source, Save the World”)
Open-source and .NET - it's not picking up
I have been sitting on this for a while, and had dozens of discussions about it too. The things I'm about to say here are a result of a journey. Yes, this is criticism; but from a respecting and caring place, coming from a long time OSS contributor in several software ecosystems, including .NET.
Why Funding Open Source is Hard
tl;dr: Either developers need to change, or GitHub needs to change
Open Source Hype Antidote
critical and alternative views on free and open source software
How open-source software took over the world | TechCrunch
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed the growing excitement in the space.
It’s time to rethink Open Source
Why developers give away valuable work for free — and what can be done to take that money back.
