{"id":29,"date":"2004-08-26T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=29"},"modified":"2004-08-26T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T20:28:03","slug":"newspapers-not-cars-thank-you-mr-phipps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/newspapers-not-cars-thank-you-mr-phipps\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers not Cars &#8211; thank you mr phipps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized with a start when reading a really interesting blog by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmink.net\/minkblog.htm\">Simon Phipps on Sun&#8217;s approach to open source<\/a> that someone has put forward an entirely new way of thinking about technology packaging and commoditization. A way that doesn&#8217;t involve automotive industry analogies.<\/p>\n<p>I am always interested in narratives that help us understand the world, and WebMink does that with his newspaper analogy for technology packaging and delivery. What does subscription really mean? Vendors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/archives\/000045.html\">are all component packagers today, whether they realise it or not, admit it to themselves or not<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to know there&#8217;s life and thinking outside Detroit&#8230; and Sun has always been great at generating interesting editorial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized with a start when reading a really interesting blog by Simon Phipps on Sun&#8217;s approach to open source that someone has put forward an entirely new way of thinking about technology packaging and commoditization. A way that doesn&#8217;t involve automotive industry analogies. I am always interested in narratives that help us understand the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}