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Roberto Galoppini sul suo blog pubblica un’intervista a Alessandro Rubini, uno dei più noti sostenitori e attori dell’open source in Italia.
Commercial Open Source Software » Italian Open Source developers: Alessandro Rubini
Sapendo come la penso, Roberto mi segnala in particolare questo spunto:
What are the advantages of the community when it comes to product development?
Well, I think the community doesn’t exist. There is no community as such, in my opinion, only a bunch of random hackers working on random stuff.
No, I don’t deny the importance of people, as I said above. But I don’t feel a “community” is there: there is no common view or common goal, not even a common language. There are small groups that feel they are a community, but there isn’t such a thing as “the” community.
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Penso che sia importante anche il prosieguo:
“No, I don’t deny the importance of people, as I said above. But I don’t feel a “community” is there: there is no common view or common goal, not even a common language. There are small groups that feel they are a community, but there isn’t such a thing as “the” community.
Free software is like knowledge: it evolves and increases over time, slowly but steadily. Being involved in knowledge-production is difficult and it takes time.
So product development should happen outside of such involvment, while respecting copyright and all the relevant licenses. The technical expertise out there is a great help, but most information found on the net is wrong or subtly incorrect. For some problems you need to ask the authors, on the relevant mailing lists for the specific project, but this is not the community, is individual people.
So the advantages of distributed development is that knowledge advances over time without being controlled by a person or a company. Not unlikely what happens in other fields. It may look strange, but that’s only because software development used not to work as it should (and as everything else develops).”
Come ho scritto penso che Alessandro ritiene che l’efficienza richiesta da un processo produttivo aziendale non si sposi bene con le dinamiche di comunità, tipicamente più orientate all’efficacia.
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