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An Interview with Steven Weber
This article is a discussion of the open source software development model by Professor Steven Weber of the University of California, Berkeley.
The main points are as follows
- open source is not just a utopian ideal, but a practical and sustainable way to organize and innovate.
- the open source community maintains cooperation through self-governance and solves the “why contribute without reward” problem.
- open source reduces inefficiencies in software development through flexible governance structures and peer review.
- in the next few years, open source OSs will become mainstream and proprietary OSs may become obsolete.
- the open source method has the potential to be applied to fields other than IT, such as the pharmaceutical industry, and is expected to accelerate innovation and lower costs.
- Prof. Weber himself is interested in applying open source models to drug discovery.
In short, it is a thought-provoking look at the potential of the open source model to foster innovation in a variety of fields beyond software.
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