Thomas Grill wrote: >> the question for me is, why is it so much more important today to point > out that development is >> never done by one single individuum but is a process that includes a lot > of people adding and >> evaluating thousands of tiny and comprehensive steps? > > While this seems to be common sense and only logical for us developers and > users of open source software, it is not so much for economists and > old-style companies producing traditional goods or services. I had to > learn this (to my own surprise) when i got to know more people in this > field. The researchers in fields of open and distributed innovation are > very interested in the mechanisms of OS development and the incentives of > the developers to transfer them to traditional markets. > It makes little sense when i try to write about that, but more to read the > original literature, e.g. the best-selling "democratizing innovation" ( > http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm ). > It might be interesting to know that the LEGO company of Denmark survived > because of overcoming old marketing schemes and actively supporting > user/open innovation strategies (with the LEGO mindstorm community).
somehow the Pd community is a premature ejaculation of next century's political and societal structure. marius. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
