The Economist: Special Report on Open Business

In its current issue, The Economist just published a comprehensive article about the growing shift in business towards open practices and models, inspired and many times fueled by the advent of open source. From the article:

The “open-source” process of creating things is quickly becoming a threat—and an opportunity—to businesses of all kinds. Though the term at first described a model of software development (where the underlying programming code is open to inspection, modification and redistribution), the approach has moved far beyond its origins. From legal research to biotechnology, open-business practices have emerged as a mainstream way for collaboration to happen online.

Among the many other reasons to the read the article is also its mentioning of OpenBusiness.cc.