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by srynas on Tue Jul 01, 2008 at 06:01:57 AM PDT

Microsoft has followed the typical growth pattern of American corporations.  It starts off as an entrepreneurial innovative company and ends up being a tired testy shell of its old glory that is now more concerned about protecting its turf than innovation.

Within that story there is another very important concept that Dylan Tweeny recognized. The explosive growth of the PC was the result of virtually everyone using the same same technology.

What has consistently amazed me is that the use of a common architecture (open source) is seldom recognized by corporate America as the source of our innovation.  Companies, including Microsoft, pump-up proprietary systems as fostering innovation not realizing that it actually frustrates innovation. In a sense, the story of Microsoft is similar to that of the Golden Goose.  In this case Microsoft is "killing" the goose by making its operating system (the egg) increasingly proprietary.


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