The Most Important Values Of Open Source

June 10, 2010

The Most Important Values Of Open Source

By Roberto Galoppini

The second Innovators barcamp - a meet-up organized by the Italian innovators group to pass from talking about innovation to do it in and for public administrations - was the perfect venue to share some ideas about "Open Source & Multi-sided Markets".

My ignite talk was around on one of the most important value of open source, if not the only one that makes open source a "different thing": the community. Having had the opportunity to share my thoughts with over 100 attendees in a bare 5 minutes talk, I want here to talk deeper about why the community matters, focusing on its different constituents and their relative interests.

The value of an open source company has a direct correlation to the size of the community and its ability to influence and monetize it. (Rob Bearden, executive-in-residence at Benchmark Capital and well-knownopen sourceveteran, via Stephen Walli)

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