Comment by timerol

This doesn't bum me out at all. Looking at the headline examples given, they all seem to move tech in a better direction. If more of the trivial things are commoditized, then more effort goes into competing on the things that matter.

Example headlines FTA: IBM Spends Millions to Develop Open Source Software; Netscape Open Sources Their Web Browser; Transmeta Hires Linus, Pays Him To Hack on Linux