Exclusive Fedora Interview, - With project leader, Paul W. Frields

[Grady Laksmono]

interesting..

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, 24 May 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
>  2008/5/24 Scott Thistle <scott at tekkie.org>:
>>
>>  I just don't understand why a lot of companies and papers think that
>>> distros are pitted against each other. The single most aggravating statement
>>> I ever hear is when a company's #1 goal is "Increase shareholder value".
>>> Wow. I hate those three words.
>>>
>>
>> It's because for the traditional software 'marketplace' it is about
>> competition. And the technical laypress are deeply rooted in the
>> experience of that traditional way of how software is developed and
>> marketed.  The machinery or software review is geared around things
>> you can purchase in a store, so you see open source software reviews
>> is approached  like its a console game title or an electronic gadget
>> or even a car.
>>
>> We speak a completely different language, we speak a language of
>> 'coopetition.'  I think Paul's imagery of a community of farmers
>> helping each other out at a barn raising, has a lot of appeal.  There
>> are probably some other farming analogies that we could use in talking
>> points. Things like long term sustainability versus short term yields,
>> which
>>
>> The laypress by and large don't understand how 'coopetition' is meant to
>> work, or what sustainability means, or where the real value in the open
>> source process lies...in the ability to contribute beyond laying down cash
>> on a counter.  Its a disruptive concept for the software marketplace, and if
>> Fedora's marketteers do one thing, and one thing only.. I'd want it to be to
>> educate the laypress about coopetition and the power of contribution.
>>
>> It will take a multi-release effort before we see a substantial change in
>> the laypress.  I hope some of the talking points this time around are
>> remembered by particular people in the laypress, so we see the quality of
>> their questions improve next time around.  I'm thinking about creating a
>> methodology so I can rank particular laypress 'journalists' are doing in
>> terms of understanding concepts like coopetition and sustainability.
>>
>
> It's the difference between Software Industry and Software Society.
>
> Read Michael Tiemann's brilliant paper:
> http://people.redhat.com/tiemann/STS-Forum-Tiemann-2006.pdf
>
> Our goal at Red Hat, and the goal that participants in the Fedora Project
> share with us, is to put our money where our mouth is, and lead with Radical
> Collaboration and Radical Transparency.
>
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