InfoWorld: Applying Theory to Open Source Innovation

“The notion of open source innovation continues to be
interesting and elusive. There are a fair number of open source
products that are built to be replacements for proprietary
applications, but most of the applications haven’t reached the
point of being more innovative than their counterpart. To some
extent this is because they don’t have the developer pool, and to
another extent it’s because most of the products are
first-generation. Regardless, there is clear evidence that open
source can, and will continue to innovate.

“I turned to Clayton Christensen’s Seeing What’s Next for a bit
of theory on how innovation in open source is affecting the
market…”

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