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[News] [OSS] Large Business Increasingly Adopt Open Source Mentality

Big Firms Eye 'Open Innovation' for Ideas

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| Benkler says this open-network, open-source approach to business has
| come, first, to the computer world. Think of Wikipedia or Linux. But 
| those basic ideas will soon move to older, steel-and-glass companies.
| 
| "Will there be a better brake? A better windshield developed on an
| open source model? Absolutely," Benkler says.
| 
| Imagine a network of car fanatics discussing the ideal brake on some
| Web site. Eventually, they come to a consensus -- they collaboratively
| built perfect brake -- and then GM, or, more likely, Toyota offers to
| build it and put it in their cars.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10480377


Related:

CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time

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| The company predicts a steep rise: only 18 percent of businesses
| will be using Linux in business-critical roles by the end of 2007.
| 
| "Linux operating systems - and open source-based software in general
| - have reached critical marketplace mass," said the study's authors,
| Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee of Saugatuck Research. 
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7681

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