Economic Development Committee Recommends Open Source

Daniel Butler — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:59:00 -0400

The Committee for Economic Development released a 72-page report entitled Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness. The report recommends open standards, open source, and open innovation in government to promote growth of the U.S. and other world economies. One choice quote:

“Open-source software development is providing a testing ground for the organization of massive, distribute collaboration by volunteers who are subject to neither authority from within a hierarchical firm nor to the market’s price signals.”

The extensive list of references in the full report (144 of them!) is a What’s-What of open-source, Web 2.0-type literature and articles and well worth the click.

Summary Report - PDF
Full Report - PDF

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Economic Development Committee Recommends Open Source