Is everything open source?
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| Which, again, is why Ackman called this an “open source model.” It’s aimed as
| much at giving him the political high ground as anything else. Here are my
| numbers, run them yourself, where are yours?
|
| But, again, is this open source? I sure don’t see it in the OSI definitions.
| Can we expect a nastygram from Michael Tiemann on the group’s blog? Or would
| that be stepping in it?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2043
The Benefits of Open Source
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| Innovation in Open Source?
|
| Recently there has been much interest in leveraging the user community for
| early identification of innovation opportunities. From a theoretical
| perspective, Von Hippel's recent work [13] has been widely cited. Von Hippel
| proposes “lead users” who form a category willing to experiment with and
| extend products offered. He also details a number of cases where companies
| have been able to leverage the work of these lead users for early
| identification of innovation opportunities and market direction. On the
| applied side, Seybold [12] advances the notion of “co-design” between
| companies and customers based on her consulting firms' long experience in the
| field.
|
| While there are number of similarities between Von Hippel's and Seybold's
| approaches, the former is concerned more with innovation,
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from con-sys
Related:
Close source is dead, open source is the way to innovation!
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| There's no PR-department at 'the Linux community office' to ask what the
| current innovations are, what's going on and what's new. Instead of being
| lazy you have to find it out for yourself. Even someone who spends a part of
| the day reading news stories about open source software, finds at least ten
| innovative new programs he has never heard of in a list of 100 recommended
| open source programs (that's what happened to me today). No, I'm afraid
| people who think open source doesn't bring innovation and don't see how the
| closed source model hinders innovation just failed their trendwatcher exam.
| Wake up, it's 2008!
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/97741/index.html
Balancing open source risk and the total innovation opportunity
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| This week I have been banging on and on about the total
| innovation opportunity of using open source software as an
| enterprise development platform.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/balancing_open.html
Can you leave innovation to the customer?
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| Open source innovation: how does it work?
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| Ideas or problems are made freely available to anyone who can be bothered to
| look at them. They are then aired in online forums, meaning that glitches are
| ironed out in record time, and the forum creator charges to a manufacturer to
| develop the prototype and get the product onto the shelves.
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http://blogs.theage.com.au/innovator/archives/2007/09/can_you_leave_i.html
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