Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki and on staff at Eclipse Foundation as Director of Committer Community Development. Ward and Chester discuss innovation and evolution of the WikiWikiWeb.
"Cunningham, who is director of committer community development at the Eclipse Foundation, said open-source software will continue to grow and thrive because it enables user innovation. Cunningham will deliver a keynote address at the EclipseCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif., March 22.
"I'm betting on open source being a big trend," Cunningham said, chuckling at his understatement. "And it's not just because of cost, but because of end-user innovation. No end user wants to be a programmer; they just want to get their jobs done," he said. But more and more people with powerful tools and powerful languages will be able to work together to build better systems, he said.
"I think of software being a work—very much like a wiki being a work—where people see an area that's weak and they make it stronger," Cunningham said.
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Of his role as a community developer at Eclipse, Cunningham said, "The important thing for us is to recognize the message that needs to be spread."
