Culture clash and the road to world domination
Geraldyne Lillyan Perkins · IEEE Software · 1999
As commercial interest in open-source software development grows, an apparent conflict between the cultures of open source and capitalism threatens to derail the movement's momentum. In fact, the character and operation of both are shaped at many levels by an important, shared ethos: the value of individual freedom. The paper discusses the value of open-source development and considers open-source hacking.