Publishing. Software. Gps. Harvard. Reddit. Open Innovation: Open innovation progress in last three years. About 18 months ago, the journal R&D Managementcalled for papers on open innovation. This month, the journal has published the resulting special issue, edited by Ellen Enkel, Oliver Gassman and Henry Chesbrough. (No one told me the issue was out, but I found it while updating the Open Innovation website.)
Below is the list of articles. The most striking thing about the nine articles (not counting the introductory article by the editors) is how German the issue is: seven articles by German authors, one from Switzerland, one from the U.K. (and none from outside Europe). But if you dig a little deeper, what’s more impressive is that almost all of the articles are about Open Innovation. Having articles about open innovation seem unremarkable. The most personally gratifying paper was that of Klaus Fichter on innovation communities, which picked up on two suggestions I made for open innovation researchers to expand their focus.
What is the open source business model? It is often confusing to people to learn that an open source company may give its products away for free or for a minimal cost. How do open source companies make money? While it is true that an open source business may not make money directly from its products, it is untrue that open source companies do not generate stable and scalable revenue streams. In actuality, in the 21st century web technology market, it is the open source company that has the greatest long-term strategic advantage. This is demonstrated by companies such as LINUX, Apache, and Netscape, a host of web-specific technologies such as Java, Perl, TCL, and a host of web-specific technology companies such as Sendmail. The open source business model relies on shifting the commercial value away from the actual products and generating revenue from the 'Product Halo,' or ancillary services like systems integration, support, tutorials and documentation.)
Open Source Moves Deeper into Product Development | NewAssignmen. The Difference Between Crowdsourcing and Exploitation by David Cohn on February 15, 2007 - 10:11pm. By now you’ve probably heard about the recent Zogby Interactive poll on the importance of citizen journalism: A majority of Americans (55%) in an online survey said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role…Most respondents (53%) also said the rise of free Internet-based media pose the greatest opportunity to the future of professional journalism and three in four (76%) said the Internet has had a positive impact on the overall quality of journalism.
That citizen journalism will be important in the changing media landscape should be nothing new. That it poses “the greatest opportunity to the future of professional journalism” is probably a relief to those who aren’t aware it yet. The imputes to realizing this is seeing real working models (something we are working on at NewAssignment.Net). Diplomacy Monitor: St. MAKE: Blog. More is less and less is mo. Open Source vs Closed Source. The debate has raged for many years now, and perhaps one of the biggest ongoing questions on everyone's lips is "will open source ever run the desktop? ". It's been ongoing for so long that it is almost rhetorical nowadays.
Everyone has their own take on this question, so I will share mine. Will open source ever run the desktop? The Unix and GNU philosophy has always been to develop a large selection of tools with a narrow but specific purpose. What works for Unix doesn't work on the desktopWhere excessive choice is not a good thing is, I believe, on the desktop.
Work is a place where people who aren't necessarily capable computer users are forced to use computers. Picture receiving a support phone call from a user and trying to establish what font manager, file manager, and clip-art manager they used, and then fix their Word problem for them. The very area I believe is open source software's weakness, others would argue is it's biggest strength: Choice. Linux kernel monkey log. The organizers of OLS were kind enough to allow me the opportunity to speak this year as the closing keynote speaker. Here's the slides and text of my talk (well, the text is what I intended to say, the actual words that came out probably sounded a bit different.) If you want to link directly to this talk, please use this link.
Hi, as Dave said, I'm Greg, and I've been given the time by the people at OLS to talk to you for a bit about kernel stuff. I'm going to discuss the a number of different lies that people always say about the kernel and try to debunk them; go over a few truths that aren't commonly known, and discuss some myths that I hear repeated a lot. Now when I mean a myth, I'm referring to something that was believed to have some truth to them, but when you really examine them, they are fictional. So, to start, let's look at a very common myth that really annoys me a lot: Now I know that almost everyone involved in Linux has heard something like this in the past.
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