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In his Homesteading in the Noosphere essay, Eric S. Raymond likened the creation of open source projects to homesteading on a frontier, via process of mixing one's labor with the unowned land, fencing it, and defending one's title in contrast to the lawful transfer of title that occurs in settled areas. While the lands of the web servers still border a few wildernesses (eg asynchronous), the surrounding urban sprawl and industrialization reveals that the frontier days are mostly gone with the wild west. So the Webtide team could have continued on in our homesteading ways, kind of like a retro Wild Bill Cody show, or we could grasp our future and settle down to some serious urban planning.   With the acquisition of Webtide by Intalio, we've gone for the second option.