The Open Source Paradigm Shift
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Tim O'Reilly
Jun. 26, 2004 09:51 AM
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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.Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything Tim, see tim.oreilly.com.
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the old Open Systems story
2004-06-27 15:01:39 Argent [Reply | View]
What I've been saying for many years is that Open Source is important
because of Open Systems. Which seems to be another spin on the same
subject: it's the interfaces and protocols that are important, and
to keep them open you need competition to keep a single vendor from
coontrolling the interface. Open Source does that better than closed
source, because Open Source software inevitably competes with itself
so even the author of the system can't control it well enough to close
its own interfaces... if one really tried to force people to use a
closed interface against their will, the community would just fork.
Open Source promotes Open Systems, which is why Open Source is important.
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very interesting topic. I agree with your position and I am working in that direction.
Talking about commoditization, I read your comment at OSC "We need an open-source iSync clone". You should take a look at our open source project Sync4j (http://www.sync4j.org): it is quickly becoming the iSync of the open source world. We will also launch an online service pretty soon. Stay tuned...
Cheers,
fabrizio