ConservationOfModularity

Idea from ClaytonChristensen

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050124123126/http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/modularity-and-conservation-of-profits
• https://web.archive.org/web/20041223215720/https://synthesist.net/writing/software_platforms.html

Very interesting essay which says "Modularity can not be rushed" (Compare SlowNetworks?) and talks about waves of value which oscillate through the software stack, sometimes up towards the higher-level, user-facing; sometimes down towards components.

And competing as closed-source with open-sourced rivals : http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/davis-sims/view

See also :

• PlatformWars
• CommoditizeYourComplements
• TimOReilly on OpenSource/ParadigmShift
• MiddleSpace
• FatProtocolsThinApplications