Individual spirits have had a profound impact on technology, there’s little doubt about that — but just how are technology visionaries discovered and how can companies empower them so that their ideas give birth to the next breakthrough products? Mozilla’s Concept Series intends to find that out, Neil McAllister explains in Empowering the software auteurs. “This is an exciting development for two reasons. For starters, it’s one of the first concerted efforts to bring non-programmers into the fold of open source software development.,” McAllister writes. “Second, this experiment gives the open source community an opportunity to prove that you don’t need to be an Apple, a Nintendo, or a Microsoft to deliver eye-opening products.” Look no further than Firefox… Software Development