One From Newsforge has Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO of CollabNet and president of the Apache Software Foundation, believes that open source is at — or slightly past — what he calls “the tipping point.”
He says It is an idea with an unstoppable course. For ideas like this to be unstoppable, they must reach critical mass and not have any restraints. Open source is one of these ideas.
I don’t think we’re there yet in the LIS world but I know people are working on it with sites like OSS4lib and /usr/lib/info.
Open Source
I think that libraries should move to an open source model. It would save libraries money and free themselves of money grabbing software companies
Open Source conversation at WebJunction
You might want to check out the archived Open Source “event” at http://webjunction.org. They had a lively discussion over one full week a few months ago, moderated by Art Rhyno, about OSS in the LIS world. Go to “community center” then click on “all aboard”. The event was in the “Software” forum.