[TUHS] Research Datakit notes
Tom Teixeira
tjteixeira at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 29 01:54:41 AEST 2022
Christensen-style disruption sounds rather like Gresham's Law ("bad
money drives out good"), but I don't think the mechanism is the same:
one can hoard old silver coins and sell those at a profit for the silver
content, but there's no premium I know of for better technology --
probably because "better technology" seems to imply aesthetics, but
newer, "lessor technology" is likely to be much faster while using less
energy.
On 6/28/22 10:41 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 9:15 AM Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My perception of the debate at the time was that it pitted
> proprietary networking (SNA, DECNet, ...) against open networking
> (TCP/IP). The hardware vendors wanted proprietary networking to
> lock customers into their equipment, but that dog would not hunt.
>
> Metcalfe's law: "/value of a network is proportional to the square of
> the number of connected users of the system/."The problem with a
> walled garden is that it can only grow as large as the walls allow.
>
>
> It was pretty clear that except for the clever encapsulation stuff
> that Vint had done with IP, the TCP/IP world was quick and dirty
> and quite slapdash. But it was non-proprietary and that is what
> won the race.
>
> Point taken, but I actually think it is more of a
> Christensen-style disruption where the 'lessor technology' outstrips
> the more sophisticated one because it finds/creates a new market that
> values that new technology for what it is and cares less about the
> ways it may be 'lessor.'
>
> I described this in a talk I did at Asilomar a few years back. This
> is the most important slide:
> ColesLaw20190222.png
>
> ᐧ
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