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The essay you linked attributes the concept to Joel Spolsky, saying that he wrote about it in 2002 and quoting from that. So the concept was coined quite long a
by codetrotter 8y ago
The essay you linked attributes the concept to Joel Spolsky, saying that he wrote about it in 2002 and quoting from that. So the concept was coined quite long ago.
- meruru 8y agoThe idea is old, but I didn't think people were referring to it by name before. Searching for "commoditize your complement" I get first recent results discussing the essay I linked, though digging deeper there are quite a few linking to the Spolsky post as well.