Open sourcing and mass customization

Open sourcing has been around for a long time, and examples such as scripts written by users for Firefox continue that original tradition. But it seems the Internet (with the aid of Google) has allowed open sourcing to take off in other fields, such as in the case of cooking recipes and even brewing beer. At Craftster, an open forum where users show and discuss their creations and ideas, members often offer detailed, step-by-step tutorials of how to make their inventions for everyone else to use.

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