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Facebook and goog is build by armies of full time folks with average salaries of 150k. Competing with volunteers doesn't get you far. Even the rise of git was
by nojvek 10y ago
Facebook and goog is build by armies of full time folks with average salaries of 150k. Competing with volunteers doesn't get you far.
Even the rise of git was because of github. A for profit centralized company.
May be the best case is to have open, decentralized protocols, with for profit companies providing hosting and simple signup.
ICQ or XMPP, never quite took off like slack. Is it because of the interface?
- adrianN 10y agoA couple of years ago everybody had ICQ, at least here in Germany. I wouldn't say that it "didn't take off".
- flukus 10y agoSame in Australia before MSN messenger (and now facebook messenger) supplanted it. I set my phone notification to the default ICQ sound and if I get a message in a meeting I see the instant wave of nostalgia across everyone's face.
- rak00n 10y agoAccording to same logic Facebook or Google would have never become what they became and we'd be living in a world of Altavista and Yahoo!