Earlier this week I wrote about a podcasted lecture by Clayton Christensen called Capturing The Upside, in which he explained in understandable terms the concepts of commoditization and decommoditization.

Well, I’ve hit Chapter 40 of the Joel On Software book and lo and behold, another lesson on these concepts appears. Joel Spolsky does a really good job of explaining these concepts and applying them to Open Source in his article Strategy Letter V – The Economics of Open Source.

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m getting a ton of value out of this book. I highly recommend it. This has been one of those books that have been very hard to set down once I pick them up.

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