Ask HN: Follow-up to Homesteading The Noosphere?

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In this well-known essay from 1998, Eric Raymond correctly predicts that the next challenge for OSS is software for non-technical users. [1]

Since we currently have many examples of such successful projects (Firefox, Ubuntu, WordPress) used by millions of people that aren't programmers, it seems that the social landscape has changed.

So, I was wondering if anyone has written a follow-up essay about the social dynamics in Open Source, which takes this development into account.

[1] http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s12.html

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