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A new generation of programmers "would rather work with open systems and tools than closed and proprietary approaches, which are seen as more limiting." While the closed and proprietary systems mean big bucks, the open source means big change.

"Open-source movie production is either an open call system in which a changing crew and cast collaborate in movie production, a system in which the end result is made available for re-use by others or in which exclusively open-source products are used in the production. "

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009): Created over a period of six years, the documentary film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to the Open Source Cinema website, helping to create the "world's first open source documentary" as Gaylor put it. KINDA LONG BUT COOL.

Another clear example of the success of open-source developing. How can the film and music business better adapt to this sort of open development model?

The open source version of youtube.

open collaborative production company.

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source browser, and has its own manifesto for how to improve the vision of the Internet.

Film shot by people all over the world in one day.  The whole film is available online for free on YouTube (after watching an ad of course), and the footage has been made available to people. They've even made their own "remixes" of the trailer for the film. A great, high profile example of open source filmmaking.

"How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. "

The "world's first open source documentary" (wiki). You pay what you feel to be right/reasonable (cannot put $00.00, but the minimum being one cent would seem too risky for the big money-making companies). Gotta love open source!

Collaborative film production group set up by Brett Gaylor. The site was shut down in 2010...

Interesting history of the bootleg radios (Free Radio). Some logos are really cool, the second one looks like an RKO Radio Pictures but says "Free Radio" and has a hand of an individual holding the tower... In the end of the article there is a FAIR USE message that says: "This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc.." Isn't that what we all want?  They also make sure that they "DO NOT CONDONE ILLEGAL PIRATE HF RADIO ACTIVITY": it's better to have a legal radio station than have  "FCC KNOCKING AT YOU DOOR."