"Somewhere in the massive oeuvre of Peter Drucker, the late great management guru reminds us that the modern corporation is a new breed of institution, hardly much older than our oldest human beings. The largest members of that breed, he said, hold just three main advantages over individuals: global communication reach, access to capital and provision of benefits, such as health care and office space. He also said that two of those three advantages are mostly gone, and the third might also go away."

In a blog entry with the title “The Power of the Individual, Modeled by Open Source Development”, author Doc Searls (Senior Editor of Linux Journal and Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara) asks “are Linux geeks leading the way to the long-awaited business reform?”