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Greg DeKoenigsberg is the Vice President of Community for Ansible, where he leads the company's relationship with the broader open source community. Greg brings to Ansible over a decade of open source product and community leadership, with the majority of this time spent building and leading communities for open source leader Red Hat. While at Red Hat, Greg served in various community leadership roles, including senior community architect, leader of the Fedora project, chair of the first Fedora Project Board, and Red Hat community liaison with the One Laptop Per Child project. More recently, Greg led community and product efforts for open source cloud pioneer Eucalyptus Systems.
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Open thrives where there's a high overlap between user and tinkerer.
No community could build something as gorgeous as the iPhone; it requires the singular vision of a beautiful fascist, and the resources of a gigantic company, and a world full of users who would happily trade simplicity and certainty for the ability to tinker. There will always be a place for such products, and that's fine.
But no beautiful fascist could create something as amazing as Drupal: an open architecture CMS that builds billions of dollars of shared value, that so far surpasses traditional CMSes. The ecosystem of Drupal plugins grows because tinkerers are free to use and improve. Sure, there's less money to be made, but everybody benefits -- for free.
What happens when an open ecosystem and a closed ecosystem go head-to-head, on roughly equal footing? In the war between Apple and Google, we're about to find out.
....don't worry, plenty of stories about opencourseware coming. :)