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Joel on platforms

1st September 2002

Joel Spolsky: Platforms. Plenty of food for thought. Dave Winer responds with a pointer to his 1996 article The Perfect Parent which touches on the reasons Groove can’t count on making it as a platform.

Posted 1st September 2002 at 12:44 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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