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He seems pretty successful to me. Unless you define success as being famous to yourself.
by shrughes 14y ago
He seems pretty successful to me. Unless you define success as being famous to yourself.
- psycho 14y agoGuess, I got a problem with defining success of a person who works in a sphere that I don't know very well, unless there's an article in Wikipedia about him. That's my problem but I don't know how to resolve it.
- rdl 14y agoI'd say Colin is substantially more "successful" than tarsnap has been as a business -- he's well regarded by basically everyone in the BSD community, crypto software community, etc. -- but that's because (IMO) tarsnap is a fairly niche product, executed well for that niche, but without much effort to make it a larger category product. Which is fine -- the effort to turn tarsnap into a more consumer-friendly or enterprise-IT-department friendly product might not be something he wants to do, and since he doesn't have external investors, no one is pushing him to do it.
- psycho 14y agoThanks for the info.