When I was seeking to buy scientific workflow apps over the last few years, I often found them outside of normal corporate IP ownership when the app helped grad students do their work better or faster. The creator would publish the app just to share something cool and contribute to their communities. As a result the apps tended to be small in programming effort, that is, smaller than an ambitious Web 3.0 network. Maybe this will change with the new AI tools expanding the productivity of creators.
Interesting. I wonder if there are relevant precedents in Windows vs Linux, android vs IOS, R vs SAS?
I feel like Windows vs Linux is a good parallel in that Windows got better distribution as a proprietary system — but I think the promise of
Web3 is that you could incentivize people to build and use something like Linux because the builders and users would have ownership over the network
That said, I have no idea how realistic that is
When I was seeking to buy scientific workflow apps over the last few years, I often found them outside of normal corporate IP ownership when the app helped grad students do their work better or faster. The creator would publish the app just to share something cool and contribute to their communities. As a result the apps tended to be small in programming effort, that is, smaller than an ambitious Web 3.0 network. Maybe this will change with the new AI tools expanding the productivity of creators.