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Nice gold rush analogy, selling the tools seems like the best deal; although how that pans out for the smaller open source projects is still quite risky. It's s
by mikeytown2 17y ago
Nice gold rush analogy, selling the tools seems like the best deal; although how that pans out for the smaller open source projects is still quite risky. It's still the lucky few who make the money.
- jseliger 17y ago"although how that pans out for the smaller open source projects is still quite risky." Yeah -- my theory doesn't account well for that issue. But during the boom, it seems that the people who really raked in the money (real money, not inflated stock options) were the Suns, Dells, and Herman Millers of the world more than the Yahoos and Pets.coms of the world. Today, it's still probably better to be Microsoft or Apple or Wordpress than someone who's trying to make it as a writer by producing words on a MacBook Pro and posting them on a Wordpress blog, except in some circumstances noted elsewhere (like you're a consultant who partially uses a blog as advertising and to establish expertise).