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Stanford and Harvard teach businesses how to squash open source

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C-NET News; By Matt Asay
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Having given in to gravity, America's elite graduate schools are taking on open source. In recent research published in Production and Operations Management, Deishin Lee (Harvard Business School) and Haim Mendelson (Stanford Graduate School of Business) teach would-be business executives how to "Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology Under Network Effects."

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Comments (2)

...they are teaching Microsoft's business method.
What a shock, a cnet blogger writing something really stupid.

Professors at business schools do research. That research is supposed to be relevant to actual business practice. Some companies do compete with open source.

Big deal. And the headline is just flat out wrong. How many Linux publications and comments on sites like this talk about Microsoft's business practices? You could also make the headline, "LXer teaches businesses how to squash open source."

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