Where does survive the inventive user?

[Richard Gaskin]

Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> Thinking about inventive users and open source software...
>
> When I first read about the Open Source movement,
> I though that it was a group of developers that
> wanted to create software in the same way that an
> artist creates his work:
>
> A lasting work of art that trascend time
> because of his many outstanding and
> unique qualities...
>
> Hmmm, looks like I was wrong in my first impression
> about Open source, but just in case:
>
> Could anyone show me these outstanding artistic
> qualities in Open Source software?

That's a very thoughtful question, Alejandro.  I'm certainly no FOSS 
expert, and perhaps Mark Weider or David Bovill can contribute more 
concretely here, but that didn't stop me from writing my own offhand 
thoughts on this.  ;)

As sometimes happens during my morning coffee, that got a bit lengthy 
for this list, so out of respect for the readers' bandwidth here in this 
OT thread I posted it to the LiveCode Journal blog:

<http://livecodejournal.com/blog.irv?pid=1311953300.756699>

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