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The Implications Of Software Commodity?

Posted by simoniker on from the the-sun-never-sets dept.

comforteagle writes "David Stutz has written elegant piece over at OSDir.com titled 'Some Implications of Software Commoditization'. It explores the concept of commodification in a historical context while also seeking to discover lessons that might be applied to contemporary open source business efforts. David gets extra points in my books for including sugar, Shakespeare, open source, MP3s, and the British Empire in one article."

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  1. Re:One SENTENCE! by MisterMo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, you forgot pork-bellies and the Chinese government...

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  2. The Implications Are... by dzelenka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... you can't handle a slashdot'ing!

    According to Netcraft:

    The site osdir.com is running Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.8 OpenSSL/0.9.6c on Linux.

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    Bah!
  3. Re:pretentious drivel by blamblamblam · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Moderators, we shouldn't mod something down just because it's critical. Even by academic standards, the article really is pretty pretentious, however much you agree or disagree with its argument. The author could have done a lot more with a lot less.