Steve Ivy gives his thoughts about the difference between open source and open services. In other words, either being able to access the code behind an app or just being able to access data whether yours or the community's. This is a great post because it is increasingly becoming an issue.
Dare Obasanjo talked a bit about this in his post stating that Open Source is dead. It was killed by social software.
In addition, the fact that we are increasingly moving to a Web-based world means that Open Source will be less and less effective as a mechanism for preventing vendor-lockin in the software industry. This is why Open Source is dead, as it will cease to be relevant in a world where most consumers of software actually use services as opposed to installing and maintaining software that is "distributed" to them.Posted by Josh at April 4, 2007 06:05 AM