The globalization trend of open source innovation

Today, the development of free and open source software (FOSS) presents a new trend: globalization . Specifically, FOSS developers (including volunteers) are highly "decentralized", meaning that they can "work" at home and are officially employed by some FOSS companies. Why this phenomenon occurs.

Traditional software Innovation (development) approach, must require " centralized management ", otherwise, is completely not alike. The reason is simple, any software innovation " intellectual Property " must require a clear attribution to an owner. Who is the "intellectual property" that the software worker works at home. I can't say for sure.

However, FOSS innovation is different. FOSS Innovation is open to the public. FOSS's software resources are not limited to the enterprise, they regard FOSS resources as an "external resource", but must make it a manageable (or manageable) resource. Thus, FOSS Enterprises in the process of helping users to use FOSS to achieve returns. As a result, Foss is becoming aware that they can effectively use external human resources to recruit FOSS volunteers (workers) and save a significant amount of manpower costs. For example, the Ubuntu Publisher canonical company recruitment of technical staff, in addition to its Technical Support Center ("Call center") outside, all "Home Office", the Location (global) unlimited. Of course, it is necessary to make a clear explanation of the job responsibilities, technical skills and personal qualities of the employed person in the recruitment process.

In fact, these pioneer open source projects, such as Linux, Apache and Wikipedia, have done so very early on. Nearly three-fourths of MySQL and JBoss employees work at home, and the employee's home address is not a problem. For example, MySQL is headquartered in the United States, but its technical backbone is located in Russia's new Aganda, Chengdu, China, and Florida. FOSS Enterprises have a very flat structure , in the product development strategy decision-making research, most of the end is driven by users. The operation of FOSS is very flexible and extremely ingenious. FOSS employees can be everywhere, and they don't necessarily die at home every day. FOSS enterprises must be very rich in customer information. FOSS business opportunities, constantly emerging. Foss's source of profit lies in the infiltration of FOSS everywhere.

The development of FOSS has promoted the globalization of FOSS innovation, in turn, the rise of FOSS innovation globalization has promoted the emergence of FOSS enterprises. Nowadays, the international FOSS movement has entered a new period of development with Ubuntu as the symbol. FOSS Enterprises are emerging, FOSS innovation is rising, both clearly accelerated the pace of development. The globalization trend of FOSS innovation is unstoppable.