The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as published an article (via CNET) about the apparent benefits of open source development with respect to innovation, and the implications of this growing trend . . .

“One of the biggest developments in software during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source software movement.”

“On the face of it, even the existence of such a movement seems bizarre: Why should large numbers of programmers around the world volunteer to spend hour after hour writing code or catching bugs without the hope of monetary gain? And yet they do. Open-source development has led to the creation of applications such as the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server. Launched eight years ago at the initiative of Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student, Linux-based operating systems have captured nearly 30 percent of the server market.”

“This success has spawned other initiatives that seek to unleash the creative energy of open-source development . . .”

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