Cooperation In Our Market
In our market there is considerable development going on where competing companies are put to working together by clients trying to build the best solution. As we’ve grown I’ve grown to be less afraid of someone copying our ideas. As someone put it once “the best companies are too busy making their own stuff work.” Dave Winer in Scripting News sums up this idea in a post today -
“…The chance to blow people’s minds is to show it working through the open interface of a competitor’s product. This is how we show web services working, as they were always supposed to, eliminating lock-in, allowing us to enhance each others’ products, and to take the fear out of serving our customers. The BigCo’s don’t get this, they patent stuff and have powwow’s among execs who have no idea what the software is used for. Heh. In the meantime us little folk are building a market. How about that.” Link [here]
He’s right, extending each others products, making us all successful and customers happy so they think bigger with us should be the goal all around.