Microsoft doesn’t care much about shared source or Smart Tags and we are wasting our time following their marketing trail
John Rhodes: “Microsoft doesn’t care much about shared source or Smart Tags and we are wasting our time following their marketing trail.”
Although Dave Winer seems to think that Microsoft "dropped a bombshell" with their .Net shared source announcement, I am not taking my eye off the ball. While we bow to Scoble because he figured everything out, I am not going to take my eye off the ball. While people flock to Slashdot to read the story and comment on it, I am not going to take my eye off the ball. While people continue to point to the original story on O’Reilly and shake their stunned heads, I am not going to take my eyes off the ball.
Listen to me very closely. Shared source is trivial. Smart tags are trivial. No big deal. What does Microsoft want? Here is the mind bomb: Microsoft’s business model no longer revolves around software. Instead, it revolves around services, transactions, and extracting value from activity on the internet.