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Marketplace for minds and ideas
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| Explaining this is not easy. The ideagora originated in open source computing
| and projects such as Linux, the server operating system. This well-known
| public collaboration resulted in a computer operating system to challenge
| that of the dominant Microsoft.
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| But here Tapscott and Wilson's book reveals an ingredient little known to
| non-professional watchers of Linux.
|
| Computer giant and Microsoft competitor IBM expended huge resources
| supporting Linux development, to the tune of around €1.4 billion by the end
| of 2001. What appears the perfect case study of public collaboration looks
| significantly different on closer inspection.
|
| Nonetheless, the values of the open source movement - self-organising
| communities that reward contributors with enhanced reputation rather than
| cash - appear to have a strong future in the wider transformation of
| business, in the shape of the ideagora.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2008/0922/1221998222201.html
Related:
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
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| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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