[ Thanks to agalvanr for this link.
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“Every time internet users search on Google, shop at Amazon or
trade on eBay, they rely on open-source software–products that are
often built by volunteers and cost nothing to use. More than
two-thirds of websites are hosted using Apache, an open-source
product that trounces commercial rivals. Wikipedia, an online
encyclopedia with around 2.6m entries in more than 120 languages,
gets more visitors each day than the New York Times’s site, yet is
created entirely by the public. There is even an open-source
initiative to develop drugs to treat diseases in poor
countries.“The ‘open-source’ process of creating things is quickly
becoming a threat–and an opportunity–to businesses of all
kinds…”