Open Source: Changing Models, Changing Mindsets, Part 1

“Open source software–think Linux, Firefox, Wikipedia, Apache,
Ajax and a host of other projects–has introduced a radically
different development model–and mindset–to the stream of
high-tech innovation. It is one that is having repercussions in the
corporate world that go beyond how software, telecommunications and
other information technologies are developed.

“Through a collaborative process that’s somewhat akin to peer
review in academia, open source taps into the skills and talents of
a global pool of software developers–organizing, coordinating and
leveraging their efforts to allow industry-wide use of the results.
To the extent that it relies on effective coordination of working
relationships among a diverse and far-flung group of volunteers, it
seems a natural, organic extension of the concept of
internetworking itself…”

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