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[ox-en] Novell's attempt to distribute effort



Hi list!

While we are discussing whether effort can be distributed by some
abstract super structure in a peer production economy Novell tries
exactly this. Here are a few translation snippets from an article
about the ideas of Novell's CTO Jeff Jaffe and reactions from the Free
Software community:

Source: http://www.computerzeitung.de/loader?path=/articles/2[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]_ha_CZ.html&art=/articles/2[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]_ha_CZ.html&thes=&pid=ee54f3c7-0de1-40f5-bb23-2cfdf022aee5&page=1

  Novell wants to extend its Suse Linux to a general infrastructure
  platform and for this needs the help of the Open Source community.
  Though Jeff Jaffe, chief technologist of Novell, does not want to
  command ["vorschreiben"] the army of volunteer programmers he want
  to manipulate ["eingreifen"] by moderation. His message: "If you
  want to develop something then why not doing something useful for
  which there is big demand." The Linux community finds this
  embarassing ["empört"] and refuses this.

I think if thinking from a general, societal perspective Jeff Jaffe is
right: There is demand for such a general infrastructure platform and
the effort to take is certainly worthwhile. In that sense Jeff Jaffe
expresses the societal need Christian talks about (unless his book
says totally different).

  The community refuses that, however, luckily Open Source communities
  can not be controlled well from outside, emphasizes Elmar Geese,
  head of the Berlin based Linux Verband. [...] The operating system
  around Linux gained its strength by not being driven by the strategy
  departments of big companies.

And Geese also points to the solution:

  Who wants to have something to sell it to their customers may not
  expect it to get it for free. Often specialists from the projects
  are bought by small or medium enterprises which add the missing
  enterprise features.

See also

	http://www.computerzeitung.de/loader?path=/articles/2[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]_ha_CZ.html&art=/articles/2[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]_ha_CZ.html&thes=&pid=ee54f3c7-0de1-40f5-bb23-2cfdf022aee5&page=1

for the interview (German).


						Grüße

						Stefan

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