Joel Spolsky: Strategy Letter V. Most of the companies spending big money to develop open source software are doing it because it’s a good business strategy for them, not because they suddenly stopped believing in capitalism and fell in love with freedom-as-in-speech.
Zimran Ahmed: Joel on Micro. The entire computer industry except Microsoft wants desperately to commoditize operating systems so it can get back to innovating, and GNU/Linux is their best bet.
Weblogging tools are rapidly becoming commodities. This is good news for people who make money selling weblogging-related books or selling weblogging-related services. Not so good news for people who make money selling weblogging tools.
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