« Spam is good for something after all | Main | eMusic » Open Source is Obsolete?"Open services" is the new open source? We were just discussing this last night and Tim O'Reilly blogged about it this morning – with Web 2.0 and "software as a service," open source licenses are, if not obsolete as Tim says, certainly less relevant than open architectures and APIs. [Link] Ian Betteridge comments on Tim's post, saying I'd question your assertion that Web 2.0 and software-as-service form "many of the most important types of software today." They're certainly important in terms of an interesting (and growing) niche in the overall software eco-system, but not important enough in terms of revenue to make the bold claim that "open source licenses are obsolete". jon posted this at 8:59 AM |
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Your comments last night about Amazon and web 2.0 struck a chord. I remember a story about a staff meeting where Jeff Bezos faced with a problem, said "not a problem, we can measure it." The act of measuring and recording alters reality. Web 2.0 and Long Tail is about counting things that weren't being counted. If you don't count something, it is like it never happened.
Posted by: HeresTomWithTheWeather | August 1, 2006 6:49 PM