[Bradford] Hmmm

[Robert Burrell Donkin]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Many people say that open source software developers have the most efficient
> ecosystems for learning that have ever existed. What is it, then, that is so
> special about the way developers do things? Is there something that could
> act as a model for the future of work

Or the past :-)

Stare hard at the Industrial Revolution, and perhaps you'll see
self-organising teams (steelworkers forging wheels in Sheffield, for
example, before the Great War) and open source designs (Cornish steam
engineers before London lawyers patented their ideas and livelihoods
away, for example)...

Robert