Open Source Citizenship
After writing about my digital overseas experience, I found this interesting essay on open source citizenship. To simplify:
- residents put utility first — it doesn’t matter whether software is free or proprietary, as long as it does the job
- citizens also consider their rights, responsibilities and the kind of community they want to be part of
Do we want to be residents or citizens?
I like your summary better than the original article.
The analogy really speaks to me–I’ve been examining my relationship with open source and with New Zealand and the parallels in my own and other people’s attitudes are right there.