Open Source / Monoculture
Posted June 27th, 2005 by John Ottenhoff, Associated Colleges of the Midwest
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Derek Morrison recently started an interesting discussion in Auricle responding to a major deployment ("world's largest) of Moodle
in New Zealand. Morrison cautions "An open source monoculture is
still a monoculture and monocultures tend to get monotonous and prone
to disease." Richard Treves offers substantial rebuttal to Morrison, which prompted a second round of discussion about the "monoculture" issue. The conversation also continues in the Moodle forum (login as guest). It's an interesting set of discussions that merit the attention of the liberal arts community as we try to figure out the ramifications of open source.
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John Ottenhoff. "Open Source / Monoculture." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 02 December 2008. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.Bookmark/Search this post with:
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