Monday, November 11, 2013
Open Source Production
Open source programming creates a different kind of product from those products released by most software companies. Open source projects bring the community together in order to produce an application that serves the public. This style of programming introduces a new kind of synergy in the programming world, but also presents several problems. Because anyone in the community can contribute code to the application, malicious code can be submitted in order to provide a backdoor to hackers if the code is subtle enough to pass code inspections. On the other hand, the community provides many solutions to the problems that the application tries to solve and costs nothing to the company. Open source projects have many benefits, but risk increasing the number of bugs in a program and potentially introducing backdoors for hackers to break into the program.
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I liked that you used synergy in your blog, I used that word too. It's a good one, way better than energy or syntax, which both slightly sound like it. I think the pig latin for it isn't too shabby either, do you think it's nergysyay or ergysynay? It's quite a conundrum. I also think OSS has a lot of benefits. Some jobs also offer nice benefits, and as long as this goes along with the salary, good benefits are definitely a good thing. Speaking of good things, I had PF Changs last night, and that was very good, Mongolian Beef, quite tasty, and it really makes you appreciate the small things in life, the buzz of the hummingbird wings, the blooming of the flower, the milk mustache formed from a frothy glass. Speaking of glass, I'm not sure how I feel about google glass. I've never been sure how comfortable I would be if I were friends with X-men's Cyclops, and I l feel that glass allows some of those creepy things that I'm worried about with him. I mean, who knows what weird things Dr. X had to put in those glasses to get them to work. Although, now that I'm thinking about it, I guess I don't even know if he was the one who created them. Good article, very thought provoking, and emotionally moving. I was there before, but now I'm here...because you moved me. Thank you Ryan, thank you.
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