In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.
Making things open-source brings the cost down.
Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.
One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.
I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.