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We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code
Dale Askey writes a very interesting column in the fifth issue of the Code4Lib Journal which was published today. In We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code, Askey identifies several issues as driving forces which prevent libraries from sharing open source software code with the community:
- perfectionism – unless the code is perfect, we don’t want anyone to see it
- dependency – if we share this with you, you will never leave us alone
- quirkiness – we’d gladly share, but we can’t since we’re so weird
- redundancy – we think your project is neat, but we can do better
- competitiveness – we want to be the acknowledged leader
- misunderstanding – a fundamental inability to understand how an open source community works
