The Human Factor in Open Source
"Business gets done between people who get along." -Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems (paraphrased from an interview)
It is easy to focus on the purely technical side of engineering: design, coding, documentation, licensing issues, and the release process. The interpersonal aspects of engineering also have a vital part to play. An important and frequently overlooked part of the successful free/libre and open source (F/LOSS) enterprise are the soft skills of communication, administration, and relationship building.
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