Somiatruites, Ciberderechos en la Red

LINUX/ENTREVISTA: 'Leader of the Free World'
OPEN SOURCE: 'Open Source Everywhere'
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Linus Torvalds y la colaboración masiva en la Red. Wired de noviembre tiene un amplio artículo en su número de noviembre sobre Torvalds, el dictador benevolente creador del sistema operativo Linux, 'Leader of the Free World'. La mayor cualidad de Linus parece ser su capacidad de liderazgo suave, sus dotes para resolver los conflictos y solucionar problemas manteniendo a la comunidad unida. Una visión de un Linus apacible padre de familia:

"Torvalds is a work-at-home dad with no formal management training. He confesses to being terribly disorganized. His approach to voicemail is to let messages stack up and then delete them without listening to any. His memory is so lousy that he can't recall whether he was 6 or 8 or 10 when his parents divorced. And he's awfully absentminded: We are heading out the door for lunch when Torvalds suddenly remembers that his wife is out and that if we leave, his kids will be home alone. Then there's his ambivalence about his role as Linux's leader. "I don't have a five-year agricultural plan," he says. "I don't want to dictate: This is how we're all going to march in lockstep." Yet the 12 years he's presided over an unruly group of volunteer programmers is worthy of study by those who teach leadership inside the world's finest MBA programs."

Otro artículo de Wired aborda la generalización del modelo cooperativo y abierto del Open Source a otros ámbitos, SETI@home, redes P2P, etc, 'Open Source Everywhere', "software is just the beginning. Now mass collaboration -- and mass innovation -- is replacing corporation".

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