BOOM! Take Apple! You thought your history over the last decade was one of fantastic, unprecedented success in bad economic conditions?! Well, what about your failure to recognize the openness that is increasingly changing the world?! Huh?!

The link is, of course, to piece by Noyes about how awesome open is. Reading Katherine's work is often like peeling an onion--a dull, pedantic, smelly, open-source onion.

Transparency and accountability, for instance, are now expected by consumers and citizens of the corporations and governments that exist to serve them; just look at Wikileaks for proof.

Right. Because Wikileaks has revolutionized the world, and governments and corporations are being completely transparent and accountable.

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