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"Open source software development, to a degree unmatched by any other modern profession, offers apprentices the opportunity to watch journeymen and masters at work, to interact with them, and to learn how they think, work, succeed, and fail." -- Jon Udell, "Open Source Education", Infoworld ("Strategic Developer" column), vol. 28, no. 24 (2006-06-12), p. 38 (online copy is dated 2006-06-07).

[My own reaction: I'm not sure it's quite unmatched; there are similar aspects to being a folk musician.]

Other snippets from the same column: "Shared code is just the tip of the iceberg. Below the waterline, there's a vast body of shared knowledge and tradition, grounded in what Tim O'Reilly calls an architecture of participation." And, "When apprentices, journeymen, and masters engage in a continuous cycle of learning and teaching, an old approach to education is made new again."