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Just regarding The Square and The Tower; of Silicon Valley. Do check out The Cathedral and The Bazaar by Eric S Raymond- perhaps a different chop down of the idea . The cathedral refers to Microsoft methodology, the bazaar open source (2000) transactions. It is nevertheless a well written simile, providing many musings when studying pre-smartphone Business IT. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ Looking forward, take care C

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Michael Warden just now Author

Also a interesting metaphor! Open systems have been a remarkable evidence for the potential of 'spontaneous participation'. Potentially crowd-funding too...

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