Article:		Open Source Paradigm Shift
Subject:		Paradigm Shift? With links
Date:		2004-06-28 06:50:51
From:		loca
I am not sure that open Source per se is at the level of a paradigm shift. Indeed swapping source is as old as computer programming (see Moody's Rebel Code and the FSF site for example). And regarding theorising the age of service delivery, well again this is much more interestingly discussed in The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life Is a Paid-For Experience by Jeremy Rifkin. I think that the social ontology of open source is perhaps the possible point for a new paradigmatic moment. But at the moment everybody is so caught up in technical fetishism that I think it will take a while for us to notice. The reconfiguration of the political as a network and the resultant new epistomologies and ideologies will be the new battleground for social and political action. See for example Libre Manifesto

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• Paradigm Shift? With links
  2004-06-28 14:48:21  Tim O'Reilly | [Reply | View]
  
  
  I think you miss my point. My argument is that we need to look through the obvious elements of open source such as licenses and code sharing, and notice that open source and open standards are leading to the commoditization of many types of software -- which in turn drives value in unexpected ways. Unexpected, at least, to people who have grown up in the PC era, where direct payment for software is a paradigm shared by both those who want to profit from selling software and those who eschew it. Meanwhile, new paradigm players are making a bundle using entirely new business models.