"Triumph of the Commons - Will Open Source transform Biotech?"

"Triumph of the Commons - Will Open Source transform Biotech?"
"Car designers are very particular people. They love cars. They live cars. From nine to five, they work in the office towers of DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, VW or Ford. After work, they continue to think about cars. They continuously produce new ideas, design new car bodies, and create new engines. However, being just tiny gearwheels in the moneymaking machines of international conglomerates, most of their ideas are continually ignored and never put into action. Moreover, there are millions of car enthusiasts all over the world who would love to contribute their ideas to develop new cars. So, why not use the Internet to collect all this creative potential for one worldwide car design project – the OSCar. "

This is not only the case for car designers, its the same for computer programmers and a lot of other professionals in the society. And what is more, the self-learning is enormously, even teenagers programmers that never have taken any courses in computer science is able to hach even Pentagon. Do they striving for money, patents, glory, or just that they love to solve problems? I think the last, for example on Google, every programmers have one day in the week just for their own projects:
"All are free to pursue pet projects. The result is an engineer's dream -- but hell for planners. Some investors find the approach unsettling. "They do not sound even remotely like a fiercely competitive world-class company, [but] rather kids playing in a sandbox," says one Google investor, who plans on selling shortly after the IPO." New economic research is taking this "uneconomical" incentive systems into consideration. People is perhaps much more creative when they can focus on creativity in itself than when they are forced to be that. New business models like Google show this is not a bad idea, Google is bigger than GM and Ford!