Distinction Between Collaborative and Open: Difference between revisions
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Collaborative is not necessarily open source, and open source is not necessarily collaborative. | Collaborative is not necessarily open source, and open source is not necessarily collaborative. | ||
Example of former: a | Example of former: a company funds a collaborative design effort, then privatizes the results. | ||
Example of latter: a project publishes resulting plans under an open license, but the development process is carried on by one or few people with no external input. This situation is very common. Such a project is not collaborative during the design phase, but may become more collaborative once the plans are published. From the standpoint of leveraging potential crowd contribution, this method has limited results. Typical reason for not engaging in collaboration in the early phase may be [[Collaborative Waste]] - ie, it takes effort to keep paperwork. | |||
Revision as of 18:20, 22 August 2019
Collaborative is not necessarily open source, and open source is not necessarily collaborative.
Example of former: a company funds a collaborative design effort, then privatizes the results.
Example of latter: a project publishes resulting plans under an open license, but the development process is carried on by one or few people with no external input. This situation is very common. Such a project is not collaborative during the design phase, but may become more collaborative once the plans are published. From the standpoint of leveraging potential crowd contribution, this method has limited results. Typical reason for not engaging in collaboration in the early phase may be Collaborative Waste - ie, it takes effort to keep paperwork.