An open source analogy: Open source is like sharing a recipe

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jun 29, 2012 9:06 AM EDT
opensource.com; By Bryan Behrenshausen
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I love listening to open source gurus explain open source to those who have never encountered it, and especially to those with little computing background. In conversations with folks who may have never heard the term 'source code,' open source advocates don't typically have recourse to related words like 'Linux,' 'copyleft,' or 'binary blobs.' That comfortable vocabulary suddenly fails them, leaving them frustrated and stammering.

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