Friday May 06, 2005 Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Jim Grisanzio isn't the only one in Sun to have a new baby (huge congratulations, Jim!). Inside Sun we hold regular "Open Source Council" meetings so that the many, many open source communities in which Sun is involved can be co-ordinated. At our most recent meeting, Ron Goldman proudly arrived with an actual, paper copy of the new book he and Richard Gabriel have written, called "Innovation Happens Elsewhere".
The title alludes to a famous comment made by Bill Joy, to the effect that no-one can hire all the smart people so some of the innovation inevitably happens elsewhere. In the massively connected age in which we find ourselves, the only smart way to develop software is to collaborate with those people - relying only on the ones you can hire is the wrong move. To me, open source software development is the obvious approach in the massively connected age.
Dick and Ron have for many years been the foundation of the research group at Sun Labs exploring and understanding different approaches to community-based development, and the book is an excellent text explaining what open source and free software development really means and how to get significant projects started inside a company. We've all been lucky enough to have PDF review copies of the book for the last half-year and I would warmly recommend it to readers here. Many congratulations to them both on finally taking the last step to print.
Posted by webmink
( May 06 2005, 04:08:39 AM PDT )
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