blog post for 5/4/05

The relationships that I see exist between the readings and the open source software movement is the general idea of trying to get everyone in this world eventually interconnected through some form all having to do with the internet. They are both trying to build more communities, breaking down physical barriers that were in the way before. It seems as though communities were being created based upon people who have common factors and the goals of these social networks was to bring them all together. With the relationships discussed in the readings, now, people are able to see all those connections and relationships. They are essentially showing people the “six-degrees of separation” visually. People are capable of physically seeing their networks, and the open source software is a part of creating those networks.