Based on your definition of conceptual novelty - there has been no innovation in the fields of architecture and civil engineering since a VERY long time.
Can you give me examples of conceptual novelty recently in the software industry? And then check who really came up with the innovations - mostly it will be USERS and not the developers of the software at that time.
errrmmmmm...have you heard of Apache - I hear its a really good webserver or PHP - I hear its a great web scripting language or wait Perl - the duct tape of the Internet?
Its real baloney when people say that open source is chasing tail lights. If you read the history of Unix - Salus has a good overivew - the users had a HUGE impact on how the system got developed and extended - and yes they were sharing source code then as well.
You are just buying corporate marketing if you belive that open source is simply copying commerical company innovations.
As von Hippel shows in his book - functionaly novel innovations come from users - and not from firms. Today user communities - as demonstrated by open source - are not just creating the innovations - but also making complete products out of them and then distributing and supporting them.
A key practical finding from this work is that lead users are the actual developers of many new products and services - including disruptive ones.
The key point to understand when reading von Hippel's book is that lead users are a much broader category than customers of a specific firm. Some of the innovations lead users develop are clearly disruptive from the viewpoint of some manufacturers. However innovating users are unlikely to care about this, being focused on their own needs. Tim Berners-Lee, for example, developed the World Wide Web as a lead user working at CERN a software user organization. The World Wide Web was certainly disruptive to the business models of many firms, but this was not Berners-Lee's concern.
Marc Smith, the sociologist, who invented this tool has been at this for a while. He has done great work in mapping cyberspace. This project and tool was part of the doctoral dissertation he wrote about communities in cyberspace.
Here is the book he co-edited on the topic
I have now basically stopped using LD services from the big telcos. I have Mediaone cable modem and am happily making FREE LD calls all over North America and fairly reasonable charges for overseas. The quality is good enough and I can leverage my monthly $40 payments to the ISP.
Do your part in helping bankrupt the big telcos - got IP telephony
May be Muth and Ballmer need to have a conversation once in a while or may be this plain ol bs from ms!
"I find it hard to believe that some of the best computer scientists in the world will want to do their work for free," he said. "Without a long-term technical road map,without multimillion-dollar test labs, someone wants me to believe these visionary programmers and developers will want to do the best work of their lives and then give it away. I do not believe in that vision of the future."
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Based on your definition of conceptual novelty - there has been no innovation in the fields of architecture and civil engineering since a VERY long time.
Can you give me examples of conceptual novelty recently in the software industry? And then check who really came up with the innovations - mostly it will be USERS and not the developers of the software at that time.
errrmmmmm...have you heard of Apache - I hear its a really good webserver or PHP - I hear its a great web scripting language or wait Perl - the duct tape of the Internet?
Its real baloney when people say that open source is chasing tail lights. If you read the history of Unix - Salus has a good overivew - the users had a HUGE impact on how the system got developed and extended - and yes they were sharing source code then as well.
You are just buying corporate marketing if you belive that open source is simply copying commerical company innovations.
As von Hippel shows in his book - functionaly novel innovations come from users - and not from firms. Today user communities - as demonstrated by open source - are not just creating the innovations - but also making complete products out of them and then distributing and supporting them.
A key practical finding from this work is that lead users are the actual developers of many new products and services - including disruptive ones.
The key point to understand when reading von Hippel's book is that lead users are a much broader category than customers of a specific firm. Some of the innovations lead users develop are clearly disruptive from the viewpoint of some manufacturers. However innovating users are unlikely to care about this, being focused on their own needs. Tim Berners-Lee, for example, developed the World Wide Web as a lead user working at CERN a software user organization. The World Wide Web was certainly disruptive to the business models of many firms, but this was not Berners-Lee's concern.
Marc Smith, the sociologist, who invented this tool has been at this for a while. He has done great work in mapping cyberspace. This project and tool was part of the doctoral dissertation he wrote about communities in cyberspace. Here is the book he co-edited on the topic
I have now basically stopped using LD services from the big telcos. I have Mediaone cable modem and am happily making FREE LD calls all over North America and fairly reasonable charges for overseas. The quality is good enough and I can leverage my monthly $40 payments to the ISP.
Do your part in helping bankrupt the big telcos - got IP telephony
May be Muth and Ballmer need to have a conversation once in a while or may be this plain ol bs from ms!
, 1014079,00.html
"I find it hard to believe that some of the best computer scientists in the world will want to do their work for free," he said. "Without a long-term technical road map,without multimillion-dollar test labs, someone wants me to believe these visionary programmers and developers will want to do the best work of their lives and then give it away. I do not believe in that vision of the future."
ed muth, msoft
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153