O'Reilly Network Weblogs: The Open Source Paradigm Shift

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The Open Source Paradigm Shift

by Tim O'Reilly
Jun. 26, 2004
URL: http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html

I finally got around to writing up the talk I've been giving for the past year or so, about the way that the commoditization of software is driving value up the stack to web apps, and how these apps leverage network effects (the architecture of participation) as their key tool in gaining competitive advantage.

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