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Has this ever worked out? 1: A new technology is being worked on by enthusiasts. Nobody knows if it will get mainstream traction or not. 2: A company puts in
by TekMol 6y ago
Has this ever worked out?
1: A new technology is being worked on by enthusiasts. Nobody knows if it will get mainstream traction or not.
2: A company puts in a siginificant amount of money to accelerate development and marketing.
3: The new technology gains mainstream traction.
Two examples I can think of for point 1 are Linux and PHP. I think both grew without money coming in, right?
- lwansbrough 6y agoI think you could argue that the is the story of many popular open source projects that were developed first by employees of large companies: React, Go, JavaScript, TensorFlow come to mind.
- morsch 6y agoThose criteria are so vague that they could apply to all technologies; or none of them. What separates a tech from another, who's considered to be a enthusiast and who isn't, what is traction and when is it mainstream, at what point does a pile of money stop being insignificant, ...
- nicoburns 6y agoThe internet itself?
- Arathorn 6y agoThe Web & Netscape? At least, this is the pattern we're trying to copy with Matrix & New Vector. (Minus the AOL bit :/)
- photomatt 6y agoWordPress itself.