Rich Karlgaard, Forbes’ publisher, has long written about what he calls the Cheap Revolution since 2006, describing it as “the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips and open-source (often free) software such as Linux. They are embracing simplicity, unlocking prodigious new power and cutting tech costs by up to 90%, threatening the Silicon Valley plutocracy.”
In the current issue, Karlgaard cites “10 Rules of the Cheap Revolution,” and while I think they all make sense, I want to highlight the ones I think are most important for tech companies.
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