What Business Can Learn from Open Source

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 4, 2005 @12:26AM from the lots-of-elbow-grease-makes-things-go dept.

dtolton writes "Paul Graham has written a fantastic article on what businesses can learn from Open Source. He covers why Amateurs can outperform Professionals, why the home is a better work environment than the office, and how bottom up ideas are better than top down. Finally he ties these lessons into the business relationship." Derived from a talk at Oscon 2005. From the article: "...the biggest thing business has to learn from open source is not about Linux or Firefox, but about the forces that produced them. Ultimately these will affect a lot more than what software you use. We may be able to get a fix on these underlying forces by triangulating from open source and blogging. As you've probably noticed, they have a lot in common."

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Home is better than the office? I think not by skatephat420 · 2005-08-04 00:41 · Score: 0, Troll

"home is a better work environment than the office." Ummm... NO! its more like, "home is a better work environment to search slashdot and cheat your buisness out of money than the office."

But after yesturdays post NRLB Redefines 'Your Own Time' I guess your boss will just set up a camera in your home office.