Open source at BBC

από συνέντευξη Tim Oreilly στο BBC:

""And what I think is happening today is that open source is commodifying the software industry in the same way that the IBM PC commoditised computer hardware and now where is the value going? It's not going away either. And this is one of the ironies. Virtually every talk I give I say, how many of you used Linux, and depending on the audience, I'll get a scattering of hands or a lot of hands. And then I ask them well how many of you use Google and they all raise their hands."
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"Let me put it this way - the people who understand these kinds of dynamics in the industry become very rich because, just like Bill Gates became really rich, exploiting what IBM failed to understand, namely the software was going to become very valuable. Sergey Brin and Larry Page now have become very rich. And people like, Pierre Omidyar who founded eBay, and Jeff Bezos who founded Amazon, have become very rich realising that this new commodity software infrastructure allowed them to build these enormous new services that were incredibly valuable on top of that free software infrastructure."
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Φαινεται ότι αυτό το services πραγμα είναι όντως "μαζεύει ατμό:P"?