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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by dhh2106 on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:09PM (#18850710)
Interesting article.

Any literature/thoughts on when to commoditize complements rather than trying to vertically integrate? Private repos might be a complement to github's other business, but it doesn't naturally follow that they should commoditize it in all situations

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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by sah2ed on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:27AM (#18853930)
You’d get a lot of value from reading an old but still relevant book from 1998: Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Hal Varian & Carl Shapiro that discusses several of these strategies.

“Commoditize your complements” is a phrase popularized by Joel Spolsky but the book uses the broader of term: “maximize your value”. Commoditization is one of a few ways to maximize your value.

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