Once question: how does one build an industry when one is putting out the
key product as an open source (read: free) product? We're talking business
models here, I think.
Jack
From: Hirohide Yamada <hyamada@dd.catv.ne.jp>
> Eric Armstrong wrote:
> > That's why the Bootstrap effort must
> > be focused on creating an *industry*, not a product. There is no
> > substitute for the amount of marketing muscle, development capability,
> > and customer-education capacity of thousands of competing companies. No
> > single product or company can ever hope to make the same kind of
> > civilization-transforming dent in public consciousness.
>
> I really agree with this. Inorder for bootstrap efforts to work;
> (1) A company goals has to include objectives related to something beyond
the
> organization like industry and be supported by the other members.
> (2) An industry has to include agreed objectives beyond the industry like
> millenium issues.
> Those organization that has either (1) or (2) is the Type2 organization
> that Jeff Rulifson has defined I believe in his presentation.
>
> Hirohide Yamada Astec, Inc.
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