> While IFTTT’s dream is for all companies to play nicely together via its open platform... A closed-source integration service is not an open platform, and this is especially relevant when it is an integration platform. I am betting (and building something towards the same ends) on more people embracing and promoting open alternatives than at any time before. IFTTT's market is huge. There are millions of programmers…
> The next step in open and free software will be making coding, forking and deploying apps as easy as editing Wikipedia. Github?
I've been waiting for this for literally a decade! Before that, it used to be true on desktop platforms like Windows and Linux - not so on the web and for apps.
There have been many attempts. Things like http://sandstorm.io/ are the latest attempts to try and change this.