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Once again the main media almost gets it in this
article at Computerworld about IBM shedding its proprietary past. Unlike
the article's claims, IBM has not shed its proprietary past but just
repurposed it in a new buisness model. That new model seeks to use patents
as a way to close out competitors into competing with IBM on new
technology areas. Now, I should state that other companeis have alos
followed this IBM Model such as Intel, SUN, HP, and etc.
The
commodization of operating systems is in fact not like standardization.
In standardization we have vendors grouping together to enforce one
stnadard amoung all products. In commidization we have the product or
software reaching zero costs and thus not profitable fro companies to
implement with proprietary implementation. Vastly different economic
models at work in the process of having a defacto standard such as Linux
than in a vendor standard such as Java.
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