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Just common strategy to commoditize everything else but them.
by venomsnake 12y ago
Just common strategy to commoditize everything else but them.
- marcosdumay 12y agoThat can be paraphrased as "making everybody richer, so they can pay a highter rent". In the end of the day, it's a very good thing. And someday somebody will comoditize their unique offerings, and everybody will stop paying this one rent too.
- jkestner 12y agoExactly. They may be hardware makers, but they aren't hardware companies. IBM sells services, so it's just an inversion of the usual free customer service when you buy a product. Open sourcing some servers just lowers costs for Facebook and keeps some engineers happy.