Today, well over a thousand people have signed the Manifesto, its theses are being quoted all over the place, and authors have a nice book deal. Not bad for an act of arson. But nothing special for an open source project. If you're in the open source world, you already grok most of what Cluetrain is about, because open source is inherently clueful. In fact, open source succeeds in large measure because there is nothing anti-clueful about it .
Open source has no secrets.
It doesn't come from distrust. Silence is fatal Open source implicitly trusts and relies upon the conversations that comprise its markets. This is what makes open source fundamentally different than closed source. Remember that the Linux movement began with an act of disclosure by Linus Torvalds. By many measures, BeOS is better than Linux, especially on clients.