Portrait: Eric von Hippel, user innovation, and FOSS

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 15, 2008 1:49 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Bruce Byfield
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A common charge against free and open source software (FOSS) is that it lacks the ability to innovate. To that charge, the lifelong research of Eric von Hippel, professor and head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, offers a thorough and scholarly refutation. Having studied the sources of innovation for more than three decades, von Hippel has found in FOSS both a confirmation and an elaboration of his ideas.

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