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Open systems encourage community collaboration and can produce incredible results quickly, growing and extending systems beyond the imagination of the initial designers. I think that's is what the church has recognized. Hacking is just a term for extending closed or limited systems.

Facebook is opening up their server technology used in their data centers. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he hoped the unusual technology-sharing program, which Facebook is calling the "Open Compute Project" would encourage industry-wide collaboration around best practices for data-center and server technology. "By sharing this, we will make it more efficient for this ecosystem to grow," he said.

Google putting all its eggs in open systems. Schmidt admits the Internet is changing in a major way because of mobile and social media. He said Google can do everything better by being more social and remaining open.