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EBay Plays Warren Buffett and Buys Online Lender(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by 13ren 18y ago
I must be misunderstanding something, because I thought that the problem you noted was that they wouldn't see the open source version on a shopping comparison. Wouldn't the same problem apply to shareware? It depends on what market you are
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by 13ren 18y ago
That's a distribution channel problem if they'd "never see" it. Gnumeric could just package up and sell via that channel. It would seem weird to them ("huh? you just download it"), but if you're right, it would make a huge difference. Then
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by 13ren 18y ago
It could be implemented as a variation on "saved drafts". Since Gmail has a bunch of google lab apps in the gmail settings, it might well happen.... http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/labs
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes, commoditization and "normal profits" of perfect competition. I think it's more your second point: it's not that someone should offer it for free if they can - but that someone will . Open source is part of this too: e.g. the eeePC has
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by 13ren 18y ago
[Craig Newmark of craigslist] is what business school people call a "bad competitor" because he appears more interested in serving society than making money. He does make money by charging certain kinds of users, but the bulk of his serv
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by 13ren 18y ago
thanks :-)
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by 13ren 18y ago
thanks - I do feel much better when I exercise, and also much clearer (which, for me, equals more intelligence in practice). I've been getting back into exercise over the past few weeks, but I've found I have to ease into it gradually, or I
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by 13ren 18y ago
thanks! =) you too!
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by 13ren 18y ago
I definitely agree about the right and wrong thing - but what's the most effective way to deal with it? I've been in this kind of situation before, and it was profoundly upsetting for about 6 months, and it's still a negative thing, years l
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by 13ren 18y ago
Embodied in the books "A Pattern Language" and "The Oregon Experiment", pattern theory inspired many, but also failed to consistently lead to beautiful buildings. [...] Although most of his buildings have effectively supported his theories
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Andy Grove
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I'm curious: what do architects think of Christopher Alexander? I like what he says, but I'm not an architect, and they say no man is a prophet in his own country...
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So it is entirely legal for someone to take a patent, implement it in a lab and screw around with it. For sure. But these guys are making it publicly available. I think the test is not whether you make money from it, but whether it takes
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by 13ren 18y ago
ideas vs. information : - "inside information" - info that can be worked out, but is not obvious (scanning the numbers got Warren Buffett started) - knowing where the gold/oil is - a new method that is cheaper/better than befor
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by 13ren 18y ago
1. NDA or trust 2. exclusivity clause One role of patents is they conceptually wrap up an idea, so you have a "thing" to sell (know-how must be supplied too - you're hired).
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thanks =) I own it (an older edition) and use it. It's well-thumbed. It helps a lot, but not the whole answer. You prompt me to use it more, thanks.
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In support of the article's "actionable idea", Edison's quote on genius being 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration was referring to invention - necessarily done in private, if it's to be patentable.
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by 13ren 18y ago
If it does implement the PageRank patent, it will be interesting to see how Google handles this.
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Having considered it overnight, I now think that the PR aspect was a red herring. The key issue was that Phil Katz provided an improvement that people wanted - and Thom didn't. Although Thom claimed in the video that a licensee of his provi
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by 13ren 18y ago
I should add that when I wrote that line: I honestly thought that was a Douglas Adam-style parody (from one of the later books). I wasn't trying to put the project down with that, but reporting my reaction to the site - I actually was lau
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by 13ren 18y ago
"Everything that can be invented, has been invented"? ;-) I agree with your point about SaaS, that people are tied to you. It stops piracy; and repeat sales are the norm. Theoretically, you could achieve the same by renting software - but i
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by 13ren 18y ago
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/31/sierra/index... It's a kind of trolling. I can see that violent sexual threats could really get to you - I've never experienced that. But I want to share something I found about trolls: Trol
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra#Allegations_of_har...
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Only if you don't know the book. Even then, I explained it in the next line (single point of vulnerability). But I can see that if you read the first sentence in isolation, and didn't know about the book, it could be interpreted as rude. It
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"as soon as something turns into a PR war, nobody is ever going to see the facts anyway" (at about 13:30) I had this start to happen to me once with software. It was really, really horrible. The video gets really sad towards the end. The
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You can still acquire wealth as employees do, by living beneath your means and investing the rest. It's not as cool as a huge hit, but you still get to do what you love and be your own boss.
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Katzer demanded $200,000 from Jacobsen's open source model train project (JMRI), alleging patent infringement. Jacobsen sued him. After he filed the suit, Jacobsen found that Katzer's commercial product copies some of Jacobsen's JMRI (whic
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A major court victory for open source (itmanagement.earthweb.com)
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As soon as he started drinking, you could see a little smile on his face. I get that from work, and from being in nature. But I can be pretty unhappy otherwise...

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