floss

I have recently been on the road so I've hadn't had a chance to address a posting By Dries, founder of the drupal project. Before I do, I think it might be enjoyable to provide some context on my thought about what I think are some important questions.

Ben Hyde makes an interesting point by talking about talent as a resource pool and the economic nature of talent (at least I think this issue is implied if not overtly stated).  Talent without skill and exercise, I think he argues, decays and loses all value  - and Open Source may be a "market" whereby the "talent resource" can find a sustainable way of addressing market imbalances in its acquisition (usually and unfortunately the labor market and hiring tries to do this on the software profession through the context of purchasing skills)

At FOSDEM I had the chance to sit on on a few somewhat academic discussions about FLOSS quality. It is an interesting issue for us as we have worked over the past three years to work on a type of "assemble" methodology that integrates itself into FLOSS practices, while at the same time ensures service level agreements can confidently be met in a more traditional professional services/enterprise context.A couple of thoughts really come to mind.