Chapman also analyzes the mistakes made, and shows how Apple Computer could've been the 99% market share vendor right now
I love it when authors look back with glorified hindsight on the failures of others and zero in on their mistakes. It's as if to say "if *I* had been there, I woudn't have do it that way"
So what do you suggest now, Merrill? Let see Chapman's papers on how the Open Source movement can navigate its way through today's marketplace. Or how about a brief gaze into his crystal ball about
+++I love it when authors look back with glorified hindsight on the failures of others and zero in on their mistakes. It's as if to say "if *I* had been there, I woudn't have do it that way"+++
Actually, in 1990 I wrote a limited circulation book for what was then the SPA in which I stated that the problem with developing for the Mac platform was that the Mac market could not grow any faster than Apple.
So I was there and was on record as giving good advice! (At least in that instance.)
+++So what do you suggest now, Merrill? Let see Chapman's papers on how the Open Source movement can navigate its way through today's marketplace. +++
Companies navigate through markets, not "movements." And if the Open Source "movement" wants to navigate through markets, it had better remember that markets are commercial, not ideological, entities.
If you want to use OS tools to build stuff, OK, but avoid use of GPL stuff in your commercial products. You will have a hard time charging for something you have to give away.
I also recommend changing the GPL so that large companies like IBM have to pay for the use of Open Source products. As far as I can see, Linux represents a massive transfer of wealth away from programmers TO large corporations. You many hate Bill Gates, but he's made a lot of programmers rich. Microsoft has created more than 12K millionaires in its history. How many millionaires has Linux created?
It's nice of programmers to do this, I guess, but I don't see the financial incentive for coders to help IBM and HP make lots of money while beggaring themselves.
20-20 Hindsight (Score:2)
I love it when authors look back with glorified hindsight on the failures of others and zero in on their mistakes. It's as if to say "if *I* had been there, I woudn't have do it that way"
So what do you suggest now, Merrill? Let see Chapman's papers on how the Open Source movement can navigate its way through today's marketplace. Or how about a brief gaze into his crystal ball about
Re:20-20 Hindsight (Score:1)
Actually, in 1990 I wrote a limited circulation book for what was then the SPA in which I stated that the problem with developing for the Mac platform was that the Mac market could not grow any faster than Apple.
So I was there and was on record as giving good advice! (At least in that instance.)
+++So what do you suggest now, Merrill? Let see Chapman's papers on how the Open Source movement can navigate its way through today's marketplace. +++
Companies navigate through markets, not "movements." And if the Open Source "movement" wants to navigate through markets, it had better remember that markets are commercial, not ideological, entities.
If you want to use OS tools to build stuff, OK, but avoid use of GPL stuff in your commercial products. You will have a hard time charging for something you have to give away.
I also recommend changing the GPL so that large companies like IBM have to pay for the use of Open Source products. As far as I can see, Linux represents a massive transfer of wealth away from programmers TO large corporations. You many hate Bill Gates, but he's made a lot of programmers rich. Microsoft has created more than 12K millionaires in its history. How many millionaires has Linux created?
It's nice of programmers to do this, I guess, but I don't see the financial incentive for coders to help IBM and HP make lots of money while beggaring themselves.
Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman