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By: Patent Cross-LIcensing & Open Source – Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Patent Cross-LIcensing & Open Source – Two Sides of the Same Coin? — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:55:13 +0000

[...] Context, on the flip side, is everything that is not core. And, to Moore’s point, organizations seek to extract resources in these areas. Open source has unique value in achieving that objective. There are few mechanisms more successful than open source in remove price and supplier distortions that make resource extraction difficult, if not impossible. But where patents underpin open innovation, open source underpins shared commoditization. Or, as I define it, patents are critical to achieving core competency while open source is critical in achieving collective competency. [...]

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By: Brian Prentice

Brian Prentice — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:26:03 +0000

FredricBaud – good to hear from you again. I’ve been a bit busy so I haven’t been able to dedicate the time for a proper read of link on the Resource Based View of the organization. It looks like some interesting stuff and I can see where you’re coming from in drawing a connection with open source. Having said that I think it is a different concept than what i am trying to highlight with Collective Competency.

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By: Filipe Pinto

Filipe Pinto — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:29:17 +0000

Sometimes i have the impression that Gartner is re-inventing the wheel.

The world “Collective” is a word full of meanings – economical, judicial,philosophical, biological… (a clue for deep research)

The world works better when more than one agent are responsible for a given process. Whether that process is to supply you clean water, or is an epistemic process responsible to create your next OS. Ecosystem (chain) diversity is key for the future.

Do you think that it would make sense for Gartner, to start having a multidisciplinary group (including biology, philosophy, economy), to review any new thoughts, and map them to their originals and to whom is carrying their investigation these days?

Wouldn’t that save money, and increase quality and margins? Like Porter would say – key strategic differentiators?

Maybe you would like to watch this youTube of Richard Dawkins interviewing Dan Dennett -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfTPTFN94o&feature=player_embedded

By: FredericBaud

FredericBaud — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:10:56 +0000

Instead of the Core Competency’s framework, I believe that the notion of Open Source can probably be better grasped thanks to the Resource Based View of the firm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-based_view

A competitive advantage can be gained when a firm has secured a set of unique resources providing a superior position. The role of resource based strategy is to identify the most important resources and find a course of actions to build or acquire these unique resources.

While patents have artificially created unique resources giving an undue advantage to some companies. Open source has proved that intellectual property have a superior return for society and most participating firms when shared and handled as a common resource.

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:54:25 +0000

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