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Crowdsourcing and open source: where we are now
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| We just published a collection of articles
| on the state of play within open source
| design and innovation. Itâs an interesting
| bunch of pieces, with op eds from the likes
| of Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst, who makes
| the case that Toyota should open source its
| carsâ software systems, and San Josà State
| innovation and entrepreneurship professor
| Joel West, who explains precisely why many
| big companies find collaboration and
| sharing control so challenging.
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2010/04/crowdsourcing_a.html
Open Innovation's Challenge: Letting Go Is Hard To Do
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| While most people have heard of Linux, an
| open-source community founded by individual
| programmers, increasingly companies are
| sponsoring their own communities and
| supplying development resources,
| infrastructure, and initial technology in
| the hope of attracting individuals and
| other businesses to help them create
| products and services for potential users.
| Sponsors also set rules for developing and
| using cooperatively developed software, to
| align the community to corporate objectives
| and avoid time-consuming negotiations
| inherent in shared governance.
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| But the tighter their control, the harder
| it is to attract outside participation.
| Sharing seems particularly challenging for
| large companies that are used to having
| their own way and running their own
| ecosystems. In the past five years, three
| big companies have created new open-source
| projects and communities to adapt Linux for
| use in mobile communication devices. None
| would be mistaken for a grassroots
| democracy.
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2010/id20100330_486211.htm
Thinking About Open Design
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| Organizations that embrace "open" will
| innovate better, cheaper, and faster. Here
| are three things to think about when
| implementing open-design principles
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2010/id20100331_038694.htm
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