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A discussion on how we can develop and address various
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cultural and societal aspects using open source developments
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over the last decade as analogy. We look at the development of
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open source and discuss why large companies are committing
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resources to open source as it makes business economic sense.
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What it is to give respect not only to inventors but to the uncredited
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many, and how we can use this as an analogy to look at
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various aspects of a culture as information infrastructure.
  
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== CONTENTS ==
  
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Contents is a lead into to other pages that consolidate one theme.
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Each of these pages should go through a collaborative refinement over time.
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Some of the pages are more complete, where as some are very rudimentary and will need work and further discussion on the significance of the alluded themes in them.
  
== '''How Open source is making business economic sense''' ==
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[[ How Open source is making business economic sense ]]
  
Kiran's argument that business economic sense would consider open source as infrastructure started this discussion.
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[[ Infrastructure Discussion ]]
:http://jace.zaiki.in/2010/01/21/open-source-as-infrastructure
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Some thoughts are documented by Ramkumar
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[[ ICT for Development and cost implications ]]
=== What drives open source by Ramkumar ===
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:http://artagnon.com/what-drives-open-source
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[[ Open Source in International Market Economy ]]
:http://artagnon.com/modern-thoughts-on-open-source
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=== Searl's  writing that support this ===
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[[ The innovation excitement versus maintenance work ]]
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls
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:http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/understanding-infrastructure
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[[ Culture of Infrastructure ]]
"It is the generativity of Linux and the Net that makes both function as an essential yet poorly understood form of infrastructure: a kind that serves ecological as well as geological and architectural functions. As generative technologies, they support origination, production and reproduction to an extreme of fecundity that shames the most reproductive species." "I coined the expression 'markets are conversations' [for] I saw the LAN market change utterly, almost overnight, when the whole market shifted its core topic from pipes & protocols to services"
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:http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/ufiles/ubiquitize_infrastructure.JPG
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[[ Questions, Doubts and a To-do List ]]
Ubiquity creates infrastructure. Commoditization moves from Scarcity to Ubiquity.
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[[ The Google discussion and Consolidation of Services ]]
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[[ Open source and usability discussion ]]
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[[ Miscellaneous ]]
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[[ Historical Incidences, etc ]]
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[[ Reference Links and related references ]]
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[[ Questioning these relationships ]]  
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[[ Discussants, Contributors ]]

Latest revision as of 02:38, 2 January 2011

A discussion on how we can develop and address various cultural and societal aspects using open source developments over the last decade as analogy. We look at the development of open source and discuss why large companies are committing resources to open source as it makes business economic sense. What it is to give respect not only to inventors but to the uncredited many, and how we can use this as an analogy to look at various aspects of a culture as information infrastructure.

CONTENTS

Contents is a lead into to other pages that consolidate one theme. Each of these pages should go through a collaborative refinement over time. Some of the pages are more complete, where as some are very rudimentary and will need work and further discussion on the significance of the alluded themes in them.

How Open source is making business economic sense

Infrastructure Discussion

ICT for Development and cost implications

Open Source in International Market Economy

The innovation excitement versus maintenance work

Culture of Infrastructure

Questions, Doubts and a To-do List

The Google discussion and Consolidation of Services

Open source and usability discussion

Miscellaneous

Historical Incidences, etc

Reference Links and related references

Questioning these relationships

Discussants, Contributors