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Well, you totally missed the point. Perhaps I should have made myself clearer I recently switched from Windows to Linux after having become disillusioned with

by froo 17y ago

Well, you totally missed the point. Perhaps I should have made myself clearer I recently switched from Windows to Linux after having become disillusioned with Microsoft's ability to ship a product that worked reasonably. Therefore, the "yay open source, boo microsoft" sentiment was based off that. Now, having tried the Windows 7 beta and now bing... I might have to rethink that position on MS's ability in software development. (I just know someone will say "but they've just bought all that new search technology, Google is still better" or something similar... so to cut you off at the pass, Google also has acquisitions regarding search, so your argument will be invalid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions)

skinnymuch 17y ago
Going through that list is hilarious. It doesn't look like they've made any product from the ground up without buying something out.
- nostrademons 17y ago
  That's the case with most big companies. They have one hit - the initial product that made them big in the first place - and a bunch of acquisitions. In some cases (Microsoft), their big hit was even an acquisition. It's because most new products fail. Whether they're developed by a startup or a big company. But big companies have the luxury of a lot of cash that they can use to buy the products that are already successful. If you compare internal efforts that have to pass through Sturgeon's Law vs. acquired startups that have already passed the "successful" filter, of course the ones that are already successful will be more successful. It's a tautology. ;-) Google is actually doing better than most big companies, with at least three internally-developed products that are big hits (Search, GMail, and Orkut).

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Well, you totally missed the point. Perhaps I should have made myself clearer I recently switched from Windows to Linux after having become disillusioned with

by froo 17y ago

skinnymuch 17y ago
Going through that list is hilarious. It doesn't look like they've made any product from the ground up without buying something out.
- nostrademons 17y ago
  That's the case with most big companies. They have one hit - the initial product that made them big in the first place - and a bunch of acquisitions. In some cases (Microsoft), their big hit was even an acquisition. It's because most new products fail. Whether they're developed by a startup or a big company. But big companies have the luxury of a lot of cash that they can use to buy the products that are already successful. If you compare internal efforts that have to pass through Sturgeon's Law vs. acquired startups that have already passed the "successful" filter, of course the ones that are already successful will be more successful. It's a tautology. ;-) Google is actually doing better than most big companies, with at least three internally-developed products that are big hits (Search, GMail, and Orkut).