Comment Re:Real help, not bollox like that (Score 1) 106
Humm. I worked for a .com then moved to another. Mostly because of the toys and bandwidth. The whole thing was bound to shake out sooner or later. In the early days I saw investors lining up outside the door, then at the beginning of the year it started to dry up and then it became a desert. The company missed a payroll shortly after I left. Just recently they pulled in an investor for chump change and he took over most of the control of the company. So whats the point, a perspective from an insider...
The real problem with .com's is the same everywhere. You start out with a great idea and the marketing folk come in and pervert it. They exploit it, investors come running in for the 200% return, then bail. They are doing this all over town. So they really only need one to strike it rich. They really don't give a shit about the product or idea. It means nothing to them. They don't have the hours and lines of code invested. The product (a good idea or bad) doesn't have their personalities built into the system.
So to the real point, the .com's are a great idea. The problem: Not every idea should be a .com but, marketing sells these ideas to VP's who are told they have to have a e-commerce or .com solution or they sell these ideas to investors who start up a .com. They bring in the geeks, we build it and......it goes belly up. So who's fault is it? Personally, I believe its the marketing and the foolish investors.
The ether-world is for the free flow of information. Information wants to be free. It is not for the e-commerce bullshit. It doesn't have the constituent base to support it. The mom and pops of the world supporting all the e-commerce business out there? Come on, get real. Who is on line all the time? The geeks. We sit at work in our pods (if we're lucky get a telecomute gig) and code and surf and code and game and code and surf and sniff passwords. We are the ones that support the ether-world not the mom and pops. But ironically that is who all the e-commerce (the bulk any rate) is targeting.
A lot of .com's should never have been built, but I thank the investors, because of their greed it gave a lot of geeks a great opportunity to play with some cool toys. Really we should all thank them for the opportunity they provided, they supported our education and gave us a chance to get a lot of experience that would have taken years and years.
(the last statement is somewhat sarcastic..) Its all just a matter of a little Darwinism. So fuck it. The ones that are going to die let them. If the product is truly good and they just had shitty management the product and idea will live on in open soure. If it was a shitty idea then let the 'mother fucker burn'. Gotta match?
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So to the real point, the
The ether-world is for the free flow of information. Information wants to be free. It is not for the e-commerce bullshit. It doesn't have the constituent base to support it. The mom and pops of the world supporting all the e-commerce business out there? Come on, get real. Who is on line all the time? The geeks. We sit at work in our pods (if we're lucky get a telecomute gig) and code and surf and code and game and code and surf and sniff passwords. We are the ones that support the ether-world not the mom and pops. But ironically that is who all the e-commerce (the bulk any rate) is targeting.
A lot of
(the last statement is somewhat sarcastic..) Its all just a matter of a little Darwinism. So fuck it. The ones that are going to die let them. If the product is truly good and they just had shitty management the product and idea will live on in open soure. If it was a shitty idea then let the 'mother fucker burn'. Gotta match?
