Create Building Blocks

• Independent ideals
  • one person, or maybe just a few, can master it and make use of it
  • anyone can set one up
  • anyone can use it
  • anyone can maintain it
• Innovation
  • inventing new things
  • repurposing old things
    • renaming old things
    • using old things for new purposes
    • assembling old things into new patterns, e.g. AJAX
• Freedom
  • free to take your data whereever you want
  • free to innovate and improve on others works
    • open source
    • reverse engineering
• Transparency
  • developed in the open
  • using open resources
    • irc
    • wiki
  • openly document financial details
    • so everybody can learn from all past experiences.

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Questions:

• Are the building blocks part of an emergent pattern, that is, was each block made just for itself, but happened to make sense in a broader context, or is it possible to pursue the pattern itself of creating building blocks that fit together? - Tantek, 2008-07-12

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