Open Source Reusable Assets

Open source has become the de facto community process for the Internet. The success of this process has primarily been in software development, starting with its roots in Linux (http://www.linux.org/), and has spread to hundreds of diverse projects ranging from designing a better intravenous system for third world patients (http://www.thinkcycle.org/), improving cooking recipes (http://www.ibiblio.org/ oscookbook/), solving crime (http://doenetwork.org/), calculating Pi (http://projectpi.sourceforge.net/), and writing textbooks for academia (http://otp.inlimine.org/.)