Open Source and Inter Firm Strategy in the Tech Industry

  1. Describe how firms like Google, Samsung and Qualcomm used the open-source model to break past the WINTEL monopoly? There is sometimes an understanding that open source because it is free is anti market and anti competition. Do you agree or disagree? Your response.
  2. Are there new markets that Microsoft and Intel are aiming at? If so which? And Microsoft seems more successful than Intel in reinventing itself. Do some research to find what are Microsoft’s new products and what market has it now successfully entered?