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Open Source at 90 MPH

Publication:Business Week OnlineDate:Dec 09 2006
Reporter:Bruno Giussani

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The computer operating system Linux and the Web browser Firefox are generally considered the two biggest successes of the movement to develop open-source programs—software anyone can modify, transform, and redistribute back into the community. While there are thousands of other examples, Linux and Firefox have managed to mount serious competition to established commercial products, and have therefore come to represent this specific, collective mode of creation.


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