Worth Your Time on Two Scores.
BusinessWeek's cover story (01.31.05), “Linux Inc.,” is also a great
piece of work. The industry analysis is fascinating/perceptive, but I
was especially drawn to the excellent & detailed operational
portrayal of how Linux works & innovates. Linux may well be a
Genuinely New Life Form in the world of organizations … replicable
across many industries. (One wonderful open-source “motto”: “Give a
little, take a lot.” And as I said, applicability is doubtless
Universal. For starters, it's light years beyond the recently hip
“virtual organization.”) [Dispatches from the New World of Work]