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“Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.”
“The battle of Open vs. Closed is not a zero sum game. Both have their time. It’s a sin wave. First, closed, proprietary solutions come to define a new way of fulfilling a use case and doing business. They solve a problem simply and elegantly and blaze a path to market awareness, acceptance and commercialization. Open, however, always follows. Whether it’s a year, a decade or a century, Open. Always. Wins. The only question is how long, as an industry, are we going to keep our tail tucked between our legs in front of the the great giant proprietary platform of the moment or are we going to get our act together to ensure the “Time to Open” is as short as possible. It takes courage, co-ordination and vision, but we can all play our part to shorten the time frame between the invention of a proprietary app and the absorption of that value into the open web platform.”
The Open Web Is Dead – Long live the Open Web | Chris Saad
My brother-in-law pointed out that Saad actually misses some lessons from history: open systems & communities actually lead the way. It’s the later closed, proprietary versions that commercialize those behaviors, seemingly-generally by packaging them in a way that’s palatable for mainstream users, before being disrupted by open.
Open, closed, open…
“Experiments that work well have a thousand fathers and mothers.”
“The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.”
“The mismatch between Silicon Valley and Congress isn’t just that Silicon Valley isn’t engaged enough with lobbying Congress, but that Silicon Valley has this outmoded idea that your ideas succeed when they are right, as proven in the marketplace, rather than because you were better at making a backdoor deal than the next guy.”
As a kid, the best skate spots were always the one’s that required hopping a fence, ducking a rope or dodging a security gaurd.
This picture captures how I’m thinking about the biggest opportunities for startups in 2012.
It’s going to be a big year for hopping fences and playing in markets where we’re not supposed to be.
image via thebenjamins-thebenjamins
“KICKSTARTER IS FUTURE OF ALL CREATIVE. PAID FIRST, THEN RELEASE TO WORLD OPEN, NO COPYRIGHT. ARTIST KEEP ROOF, WORLD GET ART, NO ONE GET SUED.”
In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and try to figure out whether to try something. The product map is now often more complex and more expensive to create than trying to figure it out as you go. The compass has replaced the map, and “rough consensus and running code” has become the fundamental philosophy for the so-called lean start-up movement.
(Source: The New York Times)
