Comments on: Fear Strikes Out

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:25:34 +0000

Firefox (the WhatWG) froze IE as the baseline and seeded the ground for WebKit, which accounts for the strength of all 3 environments.

nobody made newsorganizations do anything, user adoption did. RSS has still not made its economic case, but Twitter has.

Gtalk is a significant part of Google’s platform. Gmail is growing faster than everybody else.

It’s not about open v. commercial. That’s marketing and fear being sold. It’s a weak argument compared to the efficiency of purposeful disruption.

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:25:34 +0000

Firefox (the WhatWG) froze IE as the baseline and seeded the ground for WebKit, which accounts for the strength of all 3 environments.

nobody made newsorganizations do anything, user adoption did. RSS has still not made its economic case, but Twitter has.

Gtalk is a significant part of Google’s platform. Gmail is growing faster than everybody else.

It’s not about open v. commercial. That’s marketing and fear being sold. It’s a weak argument compared to the efficiency of purposeful disruption.

By: Matt Terenzio

Matt Terenzio — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:19:52 +0000

Sometimes it happens. Other times not.
Gtalk based on open didn’t really shake IM up.
And that was a big player.

Firefox didn’t necessarily force anything, but it persuaded standards compliance, at least.

Feed syndication certainly made news organizations re-think how they treated their content.

It may be rarer than most open advocates think though.

By: Matt Terenzio

Matt Terenzio — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:19:52 +0000

Sometimes it happens. Other times not.
Gtalk based on open didn’t really shake IM up.
And that was a big player.

Firefox didn’t necessarily force anything, but it persuaded standards compliance, at least.

Feed syndication certainly made news organizations re-think how they treated their content.

It may be rarer than most open advocates think though.

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By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:08:02 +0000

force the incumbents. sorry. they like to be forced into doing things they want to do.

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:08:02 +0000

force the incumbents. sorry. they like to be forced into doing things they want to do.

By: Matt Terenzio

Matt Terenzio — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:01:04 +0000

No open system ever won out simply because it was open. Open sometimes enables users, businesses, or the software itself to route around a shortcoming with the incumbent or simply pass the slow moving or stationary incumbent out. Not always. Sometimes.

There are few users crying, “We need decentralization!”

The question is, “What problems can decentralization solve that might be important enough to shake up the market and force incumbents to cooperate?”

I know one.

By: Matt Terenzio

Matt Terenzio — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:01:04 +0000

There are few users crying, “We need decentralization!”

The question is, “What problems can decentralization solve that might be important enough to shake up the market and force incumbents to cooperate?”

I know one.