Development On Demand

This is the sort of thing I've been expecting for years since I really started getting involved with and using open source software and linux.

I've never understood the people claiming that OSS is anti-capitalistic or anti-jobs, because it just stands to reason that with scarce resources cooperation allows you to do thing you couldn't otherwise. And the above article is evidence of that. Aren't the ideas of cooperation and specialisation ones that are taught in ECON 101 as being things that allow advance? It's possible to get places we want faster and speed up the market by working together at it. Personally, I think this is more likely to be the case than the doom and gloom future Microsoft pushes. I see OOS as playing into Ray Kurzweil's belief that technological advance is accelerating and mirroring (from a development perspective) the ideas that IBM and other high end tech vendors are pushing with their "on demand" initiatives.