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The Flip Side of Open Source

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This book has come from a place where open source software is a great success and transformational technology force. It would be hard to credibly argue that open source ideas and practices haven’t greatly influenced how software gets developed and how cooperative innovation happens more broadly.

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    https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/adopting-an-ecosystem-view-of-business-technology

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    Gordon Haff

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Haff, G. (2018). The Flip Side of Open Source. In: How Open Source Ate Software. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3894-3_6

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