Leading Edge Forum Report 2004: Open Source: Open for Business
“Open source is a movement that is technical, political and sociological,” says the report, the most recent in a series of annual Leading Edge Forum publications that detail technology with the potential to disrupt the business world. Open source software such as the Linux operating system places the scarce resource of software in everybody’s hands. The open, collaborative approach levels the playing field, enabling anyone to contribute and defying the big hand of the corporation. (Sidebar: What Is Open Source?)
