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Making Decisions Online

Rael Dornfest has some observations on why Open Source projects are able to make decisions online whereas other areas seem less able to do so.  This complements my A Bias for Action post.  A follow up to that post: Jim Jagielski thought I had added some cool additons.   Ask Bjørn Hansen apparently wasn't satisfied, so he refactored it a bit.  From the comments at the top of the new source file:

# Original version by Sam Ruby, written in Python.
# Ported to Perl, and enhanced by Jim Jagielski
# Enhanced to have links to personal pages by Sam Ruby.
# Enhanced to have the code suck less by Ask Bjoern Hansen.

Gotta love it!

That reminds me of a joke they told about Lotus and Ashton-Tate at Comdex in 1980-somthing. Their booths were across the aisle from each other. The rivalry was intense. People would jump ship to work for the competitor at the trade show. One guy, a particularly famous quoteable guy, who really didn't know anything about software quit one to work for the other. The buzz around the show floor was that the average IQ of both companies went up. White man speak with forked tongue. Have a great day.

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