BusinessWeek: Open Source at 90 MPH

“The computer operating system Linux and the Web browser Firefox
are generally considered the two biggest successes of the movement
to develop open-source programs—software anyone can modify,
transform, and redistribute back into the community. While there
are thousands of other examples, Linux and Firefox have managed to
mount serious competition to established commercial products, and
have therefore come to represent this specific, collective mode of
creation.

“But Linux and Firefox are made of bits. They are
immaterial…”

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