Dave Winer on what being “open” means
Dave Winder says: “Open is a funny thing, you can’t be partially open. You can’t edge your way toward open. You can’t be open and hold the valuable stuff in reserve for yourself.
BigCo’s can’t afford to do what it takes to coalesce a popular maturing technology around their own platform. It won’t happen in BigCoLand. Only a little dude with nothing to lose can choose to build around something truly open. (The big guys are always forced to, eventually.)”
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