http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/magic-cauldron/ar01s10.html
eric s raymond: the cathedral and the bazaar (1999)
when to be open, when to be closed?
the following discriminators push towards open source as characterized 20 years ago
(a)
reliability/stability/scalability are critical.
(b)
correctness of design and implementation cannot readily be verified by means other than independent peer review.
(c)
the software is critical to the user's control of his/her business.
(d)
the software establishes or enables a common computing and communications infrastructure.
(e)
key methods (or functional equivalents of them) are part of common engineering knowledge.
how do you think the heuristics have aged? some argue that frontier lab models are 6 - 11 months ahead of open weight models. however there are significant confounds including start time.
https://medium.com/@audrey.tang/lessons-i-ve-learned-32f5d8107e34
audrey tang: lessons i learned from contributing to open source communities
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06723
winners don't punish