PROGRAMMING : Paradigm shift
There is an excellent article over at o'reillys about a 'paradigm shift' brought about by open source software.
It talks about things like the highly propreitery way that Amazon uses OS software, but doesn't have to 'give anything back' because it's not selling the software.
It also talks about how the big sites are leveraging their users to make their sites more useful. This is very 'emergent behaviour' stuff, and for me is typified by the way Slashdot works (though they weren't mentioned in the article, I guess they don't make money?)
I think I'll have to read it again to appreciate the paradigm shift, at the moment I am at that stage where I can see what he's talking about, but don't actually appreciate it.
It talks about things like the highly propreitery way that Amazon uses OS software, but doesn't have to 'give anything back' because it's not selling the software.
It also talks about how the big sites are leveraging their users to make their sites more useful. This is very 'emergent behaviour' stuff, and for me is typified by the way Slashdot works (though they weren't mentioned in the article, I guess they don't make money?)
I think I'll have to read it again to appreciate the paradigm shift, at the moment I am at that stage where I can see what he's talking about, but don't actually appreciate it.
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