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title: Bootsy Collins On Participation, Contribution and Feeling The Funk
date: 2005-08-22T18:51:53Z
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Via [Seth](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/08/what_bootsy_sai.html)



| > “You have to bring some funk to get some. You just can’t walk in a place and expect to get some funk. If you ain’t bring no funk, then you can’t get no funk… Another thing is, you can’t fake the funk or your nose will grow.” These are core tenets for [making a contribution](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000508.html) or engaging in [The Participation Age](http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20050404). Bootsy could just as easily have been talking about [credibility](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000892.html) in open source. So what firms are bringing the funk and who has a long nose? Who is bringing the funk? > IBM has the funk > > Mozilla has the funk > > Sun has the funk > > SourceLabs has the funk Who is faking the funk? I am feeling nice this morning, so I will leave the negatives to my commenters. Come on folks, do you worst. And for those that insist on negativity, you may well find some skepticism in the “credibility” link above… |
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