mjasay writes "When Harvard starts teaching open source to its aspiring MBA candidates, you know the movement has arrived...and been corporatized. In the latest issue of Harvard Business Review, Harvard presents business managers with a tough decision: To open source a successful (but increasingly vulnerable) product or guard its intellectual property zealously? As the case study's open source proponent suggests, "Open source is like a rising tide. You either float with it or drown." Now if only all MBA students left with that ringing in their ears, the software industry would be a better place, and maybe they'd get past the case study's IP owner's concern: "I'm supposed to embrace open-source software, letting people have my IP for nothing and incorporating random developers' code into my products? None of that code is tested, you know. Or guaranteed. Or supported." Not exactly, but at least she's starting to get the point.:-)" Link to Original Source
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