Joel had an article on "commoditizing your complements": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Stra

Joel had an article on "commoditizing your complements": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html . Of course we want to commoditize data, to raise the value of hackers (raise the expected return from hacking). On the other side, data companies want to commoditize hackers, to raise the value of data... a process we are sure to resent.