Open barbarians poised to storm Apple's gate

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 21, 2011 1:08 PM EDT
The Register; By Matt Asay
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Open...and Shut Open source has a tendency to cannibalize and commoditize – and not just surrounding proprietary projects. As described by researcher Dirk Riehle, open source involves a process of continuous innovation and commoditization as communities form to wring inefficiencies from software markets. Interestingly, this same phenomenon happens all the time in the wider software world, and it forecasts diminished importance of closed platforms like Apple's iOS in favor of more open platforms like Android.

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