Open End

Eine der treffendsten Einschätzungen zu den aktuellen x-connect-availability Entwicklungen von Dave ‘long-term memory’ Winer: How tech wars end

The tech industry is organized around the concept of wars. … if there’s money to be made in controlling users, there’s been a war to lock those users in.
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It’s also in human nature for the users to realize they’re being used, get fed up, and create or discover the technology for themselves thereby routing around all the warring parties.
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Having seen a number of these wars, and seeing each of them end not in triumph, but irrelevance, I believe we’re getting closer to the end in the warfare defined by social networks. … I wouldn’t pay too much attention to what the big players do here, they will be too constrained by BigCo thought processes, and a desire to appear to be giving stuff away without actually giving anything away.
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Open is a funny thing, you can’t be partially open. You can’t edge your way toward open. You can’t be open and hold the valuable stuff in reserve for yourself.