Comments on: Four Pillars: On learning and opensource: A long post http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/30/four-pillars-on-learning-and-opensource-a-long-post/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kris Tuttle http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/30/four-pillars-on-learning-and-opensource-a-long-post/comment-page-1/#comment-2001 Kris Tuttle Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:56:20 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/30/four-pillars-on-learning-and-opensource-a-long-post/#comment-2001 I think this is part of a profound shift that is going on. Others have mentioned not only the massive distribution of open source code and the ability to learn from it but things as simple as "show source" which has become embedded in our thinking. It's now typical to be able to not only get and use things at no cost but even to be able to view how things work in the general case to be able to learn and extend what has already been done. To be able to start with some ideas, a template, some part of an implementation results in a huge increase in personal productivity and when you factor this across an entire global community it really has to generate some powerful results. My guess is that we are only seeing the beginning now. At least I hope so. Persoanlly I haven't coded in 20 years but am going back to doing some for my own personal enjoyment and to build some applications that I always wanted and everyone always told me there would never be a market for. I think this is part of a profound shift that is going on. Others have mentioned not only the massive distribution of open source code and the ability to learn from it but things as simple as “show source” which has become embedded in our thinking.

It’s now typical to be able to not only get and use things at no cost but even to be able to view how things work in the general case to be able to learn and extend what has already been done.

To be able to start with some ideas, a template, some part of an implementation results in a huge increase in personal productivity and when you factor this across an entire global community it really has to generate some powerful results.

My guess is that we are only seeing the beginning now. At least I hope so.

Persoanlly I haven’t coded in 20 years but am going back to doing some for my own personal enjoyment and to build some applications that I always wanted and everyone always told me there would never be a market for.

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