[ Thanks to Robert Adkins for this
link. ]
“The philosophy and practice of collaboration in open source
software forms a win-win model for developers, vendors and users
alike. Fundamental economic drivers are changing the nature of
competition in the software industry. The competitive landscape is
transforming from a few high peaks where monopoly product vendors
dominate the market to a more varied terrain of participants
collaborating on basic technologies and tools while competing on
value-added services.“This transformation to the new economy of the information age
is a kind of digital remix of old fashioned capitalism and
progressive social experimentation…”