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Open Innovation’s Challenge: Letting Go Is Hard To Do – BusinessWeek
“But the best role model is Eclipse, formed through IBM’s 2001 donation of its Java development software. IBM executives decided to share control when they realized “they needed Eclipse to become independent to achieve their strategic goal to have the broader Java ecosystem adopt Eclipse,” says Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. Since then, the foundation has been able to attract outside participation not only through its formal processes, but also through new bottom-up initiatives created and led by outsiders.”
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