Quiz 1: The Pillars of Open Source

What are the titles of each Pillar?

1. Open Exchange
2. Participation
3. Rapid Prototyping
4. Meritocracy
5. Community

What are the titles of each General Principle?

1. Make it Interesting and make it happen
2. Scratch an Itch
3. Minimize how often you have to reinvent the wheel
4. Solve problems through parallel work processes wherever possible
5. Leverage the law of large numbers
6. Document what you do
7. Release early and release often
8. Talk a lot

What are the similarities between Weber's eight principles, and the five pillars?

The principles and the pillars share quite a bit in common. What I noticed from the get-go is that they both aim to answer a lot of questions that people may have about open source and its community. They seek to provide a starting point from people looking into open source from the outside. 

What are the differences?

The main difference I see between the two is what questions they're actually answering and who those questions may be asked by. The Pillars seem to answer the question "What are the general ideologies that the open source community considers to be core." It'a s more political question than anything. The General Principles seems to be answering the question "What are some rules I should follow if I want to participate in the open source community." These read almost more like an employee handbook; they're a bit more "casual" and much more practical for a curious programmer wanting to get his/her feet wet.