Elitism in Open Source

26 May, 2005 in OSSG Press by David Nutter

Written by Patrick Tarpey and published in Computing on the 26th May 2005 Open Source elitism – its own worst enemy discusses the problems of elitist behaviour in Open Source projects and user communities.

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