Open Source, Open Market for Ideas

In this article, Steven Weber examines the open-source movement and what it means for intellectual property rights, corporate management theory and globalization. He is a professor of political science and the director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Weber describes “Open source is an experiment in social organization for production around a distinctive notion of property.” claiming that the movement’s distinguishing characteristic is its belief that intelectual property rights need to concentrate on the right to share.
CIO Insight, July 2005.