Anarchy makes the Best Organization

The Internet has turned the standard business model upside-down. The Open-Source model, especially, has destroyed many ideas held in resolute, such as Brook's Law. The basic philosophy and tenets held to so zealously by many open-source developers are to blame: be open and honest to the point of promiscuity, release it while it's still crap and get loads of feedback, treat your users as co-developers and as your most valuable resource; and of course, the obvious yet often overlooked fact that many minds are greater than one.