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Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of the world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York and probably you - although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox and Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors. There are tens of thousands of Open Source programs used for just about everything! But the economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: How can you make money by giving software away? Why did IBM de-emphasize AIX, after spending billions, in favor of Linux, the product of a loose collaboration of programmers that it can never control? How can the world's greatest city trust Open Source to help manage its jails?
This talk took place at Flourish 2008.
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