For those of you who aren't as heavily into computers as my husband, the open source community is revolutionising the way that we will think about intelectual property. Instead of hoarding the source code (or the way that the program is written), the writers of a program that is listed under the General Public Licence (GPL) allow other writers to amend or change the program provided that they also allow future writers access to the source code so that they can amend or change the program.

From what I have seen, it is customary to submit the changes to the original writer so that they can opt to add these changes to the next version of their program. I want to impliment this idea primarily into the buisnesses of the community because no one can think of all of the areas of improvement or ideas they could impliment through their buisness. I'm sure that most of the sharing will come in as to ways of scheduling, hiring, training and treating their workers. There are a lot of buisnesses that need help in this area!! I also have found in my life that the secrets that I keep tend to haunt me later so this type of arangement for this project is what I am striving for as well.