Many other companies - and even some Governments - are actively embracing open source and crowd-sourcing. They see the significant benefits available in harnessing the intellectual horsepower, spare time and diverse opinions that people are willing to donate - free of charge - to directly improve the quality of products/laws they care about, or to increase the speed at which they can be improved.

Meridian had all that and did all that before it was trendy. The willingness to provide from this side not only remains but, like a damn, there seems to be pent-up creativity seeking outlets. But Meridian is trying to put the customer participation genie back into the bottle of central control. I fear this is going to end badly.

More in sorrow than in anger,
Duncan