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Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by kgwxd on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:14AM (#18904049)
Credit for what?
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by mynegation on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:23AM (#18904106)
For “commoditize your complements” strategy, which was probably popularized by Stratechery but GP found earlier piece by Joel Spolsky about the same idea.
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by kgwxd on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:43AM (#18904286)
So credit for a phrase? Neither invented the actual strategy.
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by TuringNYC on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:44PM (#18904728)
There is a lot of value in distilling some amorphous concept or unclear practice into a simple rule that makes sense and frames it in a template, making it easy to both recognize and implement.
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by scarface74 on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:09PM (#18904484)
Well, Einstein didn't invent Relativity but he gets credit for describing it.....
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by woah on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:56AM (#18911486)
He did invent it. Our scientific models are just that: models that can make accurate predictions.
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by kgwxd on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:39PM (#18905206)
So every discussion involving relativity has to mention Einstein even when it's not germane?
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by scarface74 on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:06PM (#18905457)
Everyone keeps linking to the Gwem.net website instead of using the primary source.

If Albert Einstein had a blog post about relativity, I would rather read that than someone’s interpretation....

Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by jefftk on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:11AM (#18910868)
The Gwern post is better: it starts by linking, quoting, and summarizing the Spolsky post, but then goes on to give many more examples.
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by db48x on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:11PM (#18906515)
He wrote books about it, have you read them?
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by scarface74 on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:25PM (#18906652)
Well actually....