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BusinessWeek recently did an interesting article on a major shift in company strategy at telecom giant Vodafone, called Vodafone: Embracing Open Source with Open Arms. It focuses on how the company, following a string of huge acquisitions over the past few years, is looking away from doing more expensive deals and looking toward open source and crowdsourced strategies for introducing more innovative applications. From the conditions in the current economic environment to new opportunities on the mobile applications front, this makes a lot of sense, and more behemoth companies should be thnking this way. Here's why.