Chapter 6. What your business does wrong when practicing the open source way

6.1. Burns projects and losses momentum in technology leadership by ignoring community fundamentals
6.2. Breaks fundamental rules of community
6.3. Fails to learn from mistakes
6.4. Misses the opportunity to adopt and grow key or future open source technology for your own IT
6.5. Does not include community strategy in all new projects
6.6. Separates community from business

If you belong to an organization, such as a business, you may apply the open source way to how you do business. How you plan long-term strategy and how you execute short-term tactics. This is one way that the open source way is as set of principles applied to differing disciplines.

For more of an overview on applying the open source way to business practices, read Chapter 7, Business the open source way.

In this chapter, various common mistakes are discussed. Red Hat shares some examples, do you have any others from your team or other organizations that apply?

6.1. Burns projects and losses momentum in technology leadership by ignoring community fundamentals

One of the challenges of doing business the open source way is the balance of experience and expectations in your employees and shareholders. Accurately practicing the principles of open source requires diligence and patience. Sometimes other instincts and requirements cross the pathway of essential community principles.

Putting your community principles first in action and in risk analysis is essential to accurate practice of the open source way.

Ironically, even the best organizations are not always the best at what they do. Sometimes we break every rule in The Open Source Way.

Example needed