Innovation Goes Public

Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of the world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you - although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox, and Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors, but there are tens of thousands of Open Source programs, used for just about everything. But the economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: how can you make money by giving software away? Why did IBM de-emphasize AIX, after spending Billions, in favor of Linux, the product of a loose collaboration of programmers that it can never control? How can the world's greatest city trust Open Source to help manage its jails?

Perens will show how Open Source is often the most effective strategy for creating and utilizing new innovation. He will explain the economics of Open Source and how it works for profit-generating companies. His talk will be clear to beginners yet informative even for Open Source pros.

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[Ausermac]

Nice upload, it has very useful information for software programmers ^^

[empczynski]

excellent lecture - it is particularly useful for those trying to understand how Open Source volunteer labor can fit well into a capitalist economy, how it can be good business for firms, especially mid-size firms, and how it can be a good strategy for programmers who will be looking for jobs.