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I'm losing faith that this is a viable approach. For example, laptops are a domain where your options are Apple, Lenovo, Dell, or a company that whose future in
by tl 12y ago
I'm losing faith that this is a viable approach. For example, laptops are a domain where your options are Apple, Lenovo, Dell, or a company that whose future in the laptop market is bleak. All of the options have done goodwill losing things in the past.
Can't we all just "conquer the known universe" together? We need a framework for educating these companies that open solutions have greater reach than closed solutions even if they are less directly profitable. The people making decisions are often successful enough this should be possible.
- vijayr 12y agoI am not sure these companies don't actually already know "open solutions have greater reach than closed solutions". They are run by extremely smart and capable people - but they are more concerned with pleasing the shareholders and hence short term profits than creating truly open systems (with some exceptions here and there) and we can't blame them for it. A more effective approach would be to create/support open systems and educate consumers instead.