There's a pretty simple answer to that. I'm the BCG partner who initiated this idea. I'm in charge of our new investments in strategy (Bob Wolf and Karim Lakhani are colleagues in this group). One of our areas of investigation has been Free/Open Source Software. We are most definitely NOT driven by a focus on the IT and purchasing issues surrounding GNU/Linux, but rather on the strategic lessons of it's success.
If "organizations" like these can be so competitive (and who in the world is a tougher competitor than Microsoft?), then there's got to be important new lessons in how this model works. At multiple levels.
The poster was really helpful to us in visualizing the different pieces of the kernel. But you needed a magnifying glass to get deeper into it. I asked Karim why it wasn't available on line. The answer was, "no good reason", it just hadn't been done yet. So we decided to sponsor a small effort to take the files that went into the poster and put it all up here (thanks to Rusty!). We know that there's a lot more you could do to make it better, but we figured "release early and often" and let the users add the features they wanted. Perfection wasn't the goal.
So we hope some people find it useful. I know it was said as criticism, but I really do think it is a work of art, not unlike Mandelbrot sets as a fractal image.
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There's a pretty simple answer to that. I'm the BCG partner who initiated this idea. I'm in charge of our new investments in strategy (Bob Wolf and Karim Lakhani are colleagues in this group). One of our areas of investigation has been Free/Open Source Software. We are most definitely NOT driven by a focus on the IT and purchasing issues surrounding GNU/Linux, but rather on the strategic lessons of it's success.
If "organizations" like these can be so competitive (and who in the world is a tougher competitor than Microsoft?), then there's got to be important new lessons in how this model works. At multiple levels.
The poster was really helpful to us in visualizing the different pieces of the kernel. But you needed a magnifying glass to get deeper into it. I asked Karim why it wasn't available on line. The answer was, "no good reason", it just hadn't been done yet. So we decided to sponsor a small effort to take the files that went into the poster and put it all up here (thanks to Rusty!). We know that there's a lot more you could do to make it better, but we figured "release early and often" and let the users add the features they wanted. Perfection wasn't the goal.
So we hope some people find it useful. I know it was said as criticism, but I really do think it is a work of art, not unlike Mandelbrot sets as a fractal image.