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What business can learn from open source

  • paulgraham.com; By Paul Graham (Posted by on CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
I think the most important of the new principles business has to learn is that people work a lot harder on stuff they like. Well, that's news to no one. So how can I claim business has to learn it? When I say business doesn't know this, I mean the structure of business doesn't reflect it.

Business still reflects an older model, exemplified by the French word for working: travailler. It has an English cousin, travail, and what it means is torture.

[Ed.- No kidding!!]

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