It’s time for the open source community to innovate. In order of innovation at present: most innovative is academia, then web sites (mostly proprietary! but some more open than others) then proprietary (e.g. Micorosoft Live, on the coat-tails of the web and Windows 7/.NET finally doing things the way academia has been for decades) then open source (playing catch up, except in the area of basics (OS, languages) where it’s implementing academia.

April 2009, Paris