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How not to treat an open source user community

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. Zend seems to have done a pretty good job maintaining PHP while also doing business.

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Going out on a limb

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Open standards are now becoming de-riguer for application developers, and even proprietary vendors are adopting longstanding ideas and methods from free and open source software. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. I think the next 4-8 years are going to prove Yochai Benkler right. { Fun will be had by all.