Understanding Infrastructure
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| FOSS code is pure building material. The free, abundant and practical nature
| of this building material gives it some qualities of commodities; yet its
| generative nature is exceptional to traditional economic constructs. It also
| inconveniences economic belief systems that anchor their perspective in the
| work of business, government, or both. FOSS goods grow naturally outside
| either context.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/understanding-infrastructure
Recent:
Is Linux Commoditizing the Desktop OS Market?
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| Those forces are as follows:
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| * low hardware cost of the new ultra-portable computers such as the Asus Eee
| * low memory and storage requirements of many Linux distributions
| * increasing memory & storage requirements of Windows distributions
| * emergence of free web-based productivity applications
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http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/03/is-linux-commoditizing-the-operating-system-market/
Why PCs aren't pricey anymore
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| The PC was always a commodity--only dressed up as something more than that.
| Now there is no returning to the days of Fat City. These days you have no
| excuse for getting ripped off. If you pay too much for a computer, it's your
| own fault.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9584_22-6221875.html
Open Voices – Mark Shuttleworth
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| It’s going to be very interesting to see what role Linux plays in unsettling
| Microsoft. It’s certainly true that one of Microsoft’s major cash cows—which
| is the operating system—is very vulnerable to commoditization. You know, I
| believe that the operating system is already a commodity; it’s just that most
| folks haven’t realized it and so they’re willing to pay for it.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=524
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