Open communication facilitates collaboration
I've just listened to an interesting keynote given by IBM's Irving Wladawsky-Berger. He makes the point that "the real value of open source software is that it allows communities to work together and solve problems. Those communities ... need to read each other's software ... to communicate and collaborate." In other words, spending nights gazing at open source is not where the value lies - the value lies in how the openness contributes to future collaboration. This is an unsung quality of blogs too: Open communication facilitates collaboration So, without further ado, I open this blog with it's obligatory first post - and welcome communication and collaboration from all you folk reading it.
