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The Burtonian Matrix
Author: Doc Searls Posted: 8/23/2000; 6:37:02 PM Topic: Next survey: Are you an open source developer? Msg #: 20037 (In response to 19977) Prev/Next: 20036 / 20038
It's time to bring in the thinking of Craig Burton, who has, like Dave (and everybody in this thread) been trying to bring fresh sense to the open source conversation. I interviewed Craig for the August issue of Linux Journal (p.16). He makes one key point that might help us here: open/closed and proprietary/public domain are inherently different kinds of distinctions that too often collapse along a moral axis that makes closed and proprietary both *bad* and open and public domain both *good*. To illustrate this, he plots the two sets of distinctions orthogonally and tells how the moral axis oversimplifies the whole matter.I could go on, but I'd rather let the man says for himself. I just put the piece up on my site, with his matrix, at <http://www.searls.com/burton_interview.html>.
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