in essence i'm a software developer, what i think i do better is produce code! i'm so passionate about coding… that after while coding (10 years) i got involved into open source development "world".

after "living" in this community for a while i started to see that are some misunderstandings around the expression: "open source". people from different areas (ie. programming, marketing, sales, government, etc…) understand open source differently, even people from the same area have different opinions about open source.

and this misunderstanding/misconception are spread out there… there are people that support open source (even without realizing what it really is), there are people that just don't get it, there are people that hate it (usually after an explanation about what it is, they change their position), there are people that uses open source as a sales argument, there are people that use open source as an argument to *not* buy something, there are people that dress "che guevera" t-shirst and say that open source is the new communism and there are people that believe on it… in resume: open source concept is messy, everybody has its own.

during this post i'll try to expose my thoughts about open source, a point of view of a passionated software developer and a start-up co-founder that is creating his venture creating an open source tool.