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The Body Metaphor - making the case for Open Source

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posted Saturday, 9 April 2005

Hugh Macleod the cartoonist who illustrated Kim's presentation at the Open Source Business Conference has his own take on Open Source - one I had never really thought of.

Metaphorically, imagine your market was a human body. Now imagine a human body that doesn't need vital organs in order to survive.

If you can imagine that, then that begs the question:

"Why pay a corporation for an expensive pair of lungs, when you can millions of microlungs for free?"

He has a great picture to illistrate the point on his blog.

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