values

Bringing Free Software Values Back: Please Welcome Equitable Open Source

A new project in the making will keep track of moochers and fakers on the face of it.

Open source values: openness

Along with transparency and consensus, a third key open source value is openness...Openness means the simple availability of the resource. All the resource. When someone violates openness, the rent is obvious. Users route around it, almost automatically, and condemn those who violate the principle

Open source values: transparency

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Values are important, in a business sense. When your values and those of your customers are in sync, you have a great opportunity for growth. They’re also important politically. They define the boundaries for internal debate, and establish markers for debate with opponents. Transparency may be the most important open source value. Transparency is inherent in every release of open source code.