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• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: the web client interface was RE: Two link questions
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:41:24 -0400
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:

> It's a fear if the threat is to what one fears losing.  It is phobia when 
> it is the knee jerk means to raise a rabble because they are afraid of 
> losing market share.  If Moz is really demonstrably clearly to any 
> user better, it can hold its own.

You can demonstrate all you want, but many people will not listen.

> >so i support ip, open source, proprietary products, and most importantly
> >standards. but in the end the big companies and the markets will
> >determine which, if any, of these things have value.
> 
> Me too, but given our business model, the bigCos are there to enable 
> us to manage risks for our customers, to enable us to sell based on 
> the applications we build and the types of content we manage, and 
> not on spending cash assets to obtain core technology without IP 
> advantages.   We will lose if we go down that path.
> 
> >buying based on who you can sue is basically admitting failure before
> >you've even tried success. that might explain a lot of large system
> >failures
> 
> It is only down at the level of core technology that open 
> source is competing seriously (open office not withstanding) and 
> there they do it without IP management which reduces their overall
> credibility.

There's a sequence here.

1) "Open source is just a toy; there will never be an OS."

2) "Open source has an OS, but it will never have a desktop."

3) "Open source has a desktop, but it will never have credible office apps."

Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.

-- 
John Cowan  www.ccil.org/~cowan  jcowan@r...  www.reutershealth.com
Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come out.  He wasn't home.
Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us.  He no show up.  Wednesday he
go to the ball game, and we fool him.  We no show up.  Thursday was a
double-header.  Nobody show up.  Friday it rained all day.  There was no ball
game, so we stayed home and we listened to it on-a the radio.  --Chicolini

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