Oh, didn't know that. I was referring to Dell using it as a way to figure out what the market wanted from new products, and the analogy being, "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would've said a faster horse -- Ford"
http://www.ideatorrent.org/
open source program ...
"IdeaTorrent is what can be defined as an "open innovation software": it lets people submit their ideas, brainstorm them, and vote on them. The most popular ideas and requests are then easily assessable."
Demo: http://www.ideatorrent.org/ideatorrent
Question: Do you Know - similar - Open source Idea management program ?
EDIT: A quick perusal of their archives shows posts from mid 2007.