The World is Flat
...o operating systems to dictionaries like Wikipedia.com. It is termed "open-source" because the server's source code is made available to everyone and anyone who has something to improve it can add to the source, creating patches. In this way, computer nerds and scientists became people with a common goal, and as IBM's eventual support of and contract with Apache proved, the "geeks" had the better version. This sentiment is shared by a myriad of top names like Marc Andreeson and Brian Behlendorf,the "public frontman" for Apache. Other examples of important open-source operatives are systems like Linux and the "Weblog" - hence blogging. The controversial, more radical side of open-sourcing rests in the free software movement, started up by Richard Stallman in 1984. The free software movement is based on the premise that software should be free and available to everyone. It is organized so that if someone takes and expands upon their free software license, then that person should make it so his/her software copyright is free as well. (Linux is the most successful version of the open-source free software movement.) Companies like Microsoft, of course, disagree with the entire open-sourcing philosophy. Friedman quotes Bill Gates as saying, "You need capitalism to drive innovation...[people] are not thinking, "I will be a barber during the day and do free software at night..."Out-sourcing is Friedman's next topic. The second sub-section discusses the recent out-sourcing craze ...