Michael Dehaan muses about
the future of open source software. “In the future 1000 years
from now, was it more important to have worked on Web App X or Database
Engine Y? Neither. Because that can’t be what matters. Theory: The power
of OSS tech is not in technology, it is that it crosses boundaries. It is a
system, an ideal. The tech does not matter. OSS is not about software.
Software is an abstract playing field in which we teach ourselves how to
collaborate. One of many such fields. Maybe not even the most efficient.
Computer Science is just about logic anyway. It was never about
computers.” (Thanks to Paul Wise)