These comments indicate that it must have been an interesting talk, placing Open source in context and mapping Maslows hierarchy to current corporate culture. To make collaboration work there must be shared context, but there may be a space for competitive collaboration. Think of the laggards looking for a proven solution to problem X. They will pay to collaborate with the best match solution. Being a year or so behind the curve, the market has already solved the problem on many occasions, the solutions have moved from being contextual to being core. For the laggards, find a good match to their context is the real challenge, if such a match can be found, the laggard can make a quantum leap, not only replicating the solution but also replicating some of the context!
This is a big win for the laggard, the compensation for the innovators comes in payment for their IPR and also in the benefits of commoditisation of their core solution. If their solution can become dominant they can benefit from increased buying power for support and service from the original hardware and software vendors.
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