Going Public?

• When a company first becomes available on the stock market, that's called "Going Public"
• Innovation isn't a company. How can it go public?
• It turns out that Free Software / Open Source development shares a lot in common with investment markets.
• But this talk isn't about Open Source companies going public.
• Open Source does not mean Open Source Vendors like Red Hat and IBM. It means Open Source teams like the Apache and Linux developers, and their products. The vendors are middle-men.
• It's about the new way of innovating in a public setting.