Innovation Happens Elsewhere

The title alludes to a famous comment made by Bill Joy, to the effect that no-one can hire all the smart people so some of the innovation inevitably happens elsewhere. In the massively connected age in which we find ourselves, the only smart way to develop software is to collaborate with those people - relying only on the ones you can hire is the wrong move. To me, open source software development is the obvious approach in the massively connected age.