Post date: Aug 05, 2012 5:2:12 AM
in case your wondering "Why Google secretly switched to an open-source networking technology in 2010" consider that there is a quiet revolution going on that is disrupting what has been the predictable flow of capital in the modern world. The key to understanding this "disruptive technology" lies in grasping the idea that the way we get and share information the modern world is dramatically changing.
An example is now each person has the power to set up their Facebook page as their own personal magazine or media outlet. Another example is how we can get music and other data without relying on corporate middlemen. Not all of it is good news as newspapers, bookstores, recordstores and other media "retailers" are dying. However what is replacing them are more direct Person to Person (P2P) interactions.
more directly Open Source in that people are seeing there are ways to make money besides holding your ideas so close to your chest so to speak...Via strict and repressive intellectual property rights that inhibit innovation and societal evolution - by restricting the sharing of ideas. By opening up the distribution and sharing of information we promote moreĀ organic forms of innovation. Creating such an "ecology of commerce" might enable us to design human systems that organically serve human needs and aspirations, reducing the tendency to deviate from natural systems.
A second component is relating to the nuts and bolts of the Internet Infrastructure that powers the P2P movement.
Thus this Open Flow implementation at Google could be another signal that the way in which business is operating is changing and that Google - despite its many flaws - is one of the companies opening up to these new kinds of business practices.