Ron Goldman

Dick Gabriel

Ron Goldman, Richard Gabriel - Winners of a Productivity Award in Software Development's 16th Annual Jolt Awards

for their book:
"Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy"

March 27, 2006 - In the foreword to "Innovation Happens Elsewhere", Christopher Meyer, Chief Executive, Monitor Networks, writes:

"The open source community points the way to new concepts of property because it occupies the crossroads of the two streams of novelty: first, it engages self-organizing free agents as its labor force, mobilizing human capital. Second, open source relies upon the very low cost of reusability and distribution of software code for its economic effectiveness, mobilizing intellectual capital.

Thus 'Innovation Happens Elsewhere' is at least as important for those who have no interest in software as for those who do, because in the details of the history and practice of the open source community lie clues to the institutional adaptations of the information economy; in the clauses of the software licenses presented here lie the case law that will come to define property in the information age."

BUY THE BOOK - or at least read it:
Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy, by Ron Goldman and Dick Gabriel is available on Amazon.com. It is also available for reading online under a creative commons license at: http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html

About the Award:
Software Development Magazine's 16th Annual Jolt Awards pay tribute to those products, books and web sites that have "jolted" the industry and helped make your job easier! Eighty nine finalists were selected from hundreds of nomination by the twenty Jolt judges, all leaders in the software development field. Jolt Cola, the "fabled soft drink quaffed by software developers for sustenance during project development marathons," sponsors the awards presentation.

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