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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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I know there's a ton of noise around Mindstorms and open source -- how much value do the various open source projects add to the Mindstorms experience? Have you played with that at all?
...I think you're right in the heart of the topic, because you're right in the heart of one of Mark's chief concerns about open source: that because it isn't sufficiently inclusive, it's difficult for him to call it "open" with a straight face.
"The fallacy of equal treatment versus equal consideration" may actually be one of the most succinct criticisms of the open source culture I've ever heard.
What's to be done about it is another question -- but I suspect that academia might be well-placed to help. I know that HFOSS cares about this issue, which is one of the reasons I'm engaged with them.