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What I've learned about open source community over 30 years
The FreeDOS Project Celebrates 30 Years of Open Source. Founder Jim Hall shares the origin story and the importance of community. Learn his seven key lessons for maintaining a thriving Open Source community.
Anyone from the era likely remembers desktop word processors like WordStar, WordPerfect, and PC-Write – or spreadsheet applications including VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3 and Quattro Pro. That means you need to be open to communication; if someone brings forward a new idea that doesn’t fit the initial goals of the project, don’t dismiss it out of hand. Huge thanks also go out to developers and users like Tim Norman, M. Hannibal Toal, Eric Auer, Martin, Arkady, Bernd, Charles, Eduardo, Rene, Dave, Mike, Aitor Santamaria, Tom, Paul Vojta, Joe Cosentino, Shaun, Till, Wilhelm, Rugxulo, Mateusz Viste, Gregory Pietsch, Imre, Louis, Fritz, Jim Tabor, Jason, Jerome Shidel, Ron, Lucho, ror4, Steffen, Ralf Quint, and the many many others who have been part of our community.
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