Sofware Engineers and the Networked Economy
Google has an open-source program mainly to support young geeks and tie into open source. In that program, Googles is functioning as a university as it creates a new kind of distributed lab. Chris DiBona, open-source program manager, has a great quote on the importance for software engineers to properly apply the tools of the networked economy (message boards, phone, VoIP, email, instant messaging, video conferencing, and blogging):
“Developers should get used to the idea of globally distributed work groups all over the place, all over the time zones. It’s the future of software development.”