[p2p-research] open-source gadgets have the best chance in markets where the technology has matured to the point that it is commonplace.

[Michel Bauwens]

Do people here agree with this thesis, see
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=25B8CB70-1A64-67EA-E4D482E1CEBA3792

But can such gadgets succeed against those developed by established
commercial manufacturers with deep pockets? Mark Driver, a Gartner analyst
who specializes in open source, thinks that open-source gadgets have the
best chance in markets where the technology has matured to the point that it
is commonplace.

"Open source is about commoditization," Driver says. "These products are
taking a market where there really isn't a lot of concrete differentiation
... between what's out there and providing an alternative, which is exactly
what open source does right. Linux got wildly popular not because it did
something new; it's because it did what Unix did, but did it in a much more
open fashion."


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