{"id":7,"date":"2006-05-20T10:57:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T22:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/05\/20\/best-description-of-the-open-source-model-ive-ever-heard\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T02:26:44","slug":"best-description-of-the-open-source-model-ive-ever-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/05\/20\/best-description-of-the-open-source-model-ive-ever-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Best description of the open source model I've ever heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Linus Torvalds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today, and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. So openness is not something new, it is something that actually has worked for a long time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/BUSINESS\/05\/18\/global.office.linustorvalds\/\" title=\"Reclusive Linux founder opens up\">CNN interview<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In other news-stolen-from-Slashdot today, Peter Calveley, a New Zealand actor, has <a href=\"http:\/\/igdmlgd.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/united-states-patent-and-trademark.html\">convinced the USPTO to reconsider Amazon's one-click ordering patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds: In fact, I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today, and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}