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RealNames CEO Talks Back

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ring-of-power dept.

jasoncart writes: "Keith Teare, former CEO of RealNames, has updated his homepage with his opinions regarding his the companies downfall. Obviously he's annoyed as he has lost his job, but he makes some good points about Microsoft's monopoly - 'Microsoft seems to be playing the role of the referee who decides whether any innovations succeed'"

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  1. The fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    It's all well and good. It makes good reading, but what he basically said was - "Microsoft can do what it wants because they ship operating systems. I can't do what I want because I only ship something that breaks standards to make me bucks with no real consumer returns."

    Somebody needs to call this dude a whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!

  2. Hey it took 79 people to maintain buddy by rufusdufus · · Score: 3, Funny

    This company was obviously the epitome of efficiency, since they only need 79 employees to keep the name server running.

  3. Yeah, right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that RealNames couldn't pay their bill. "Uh, yeah. We know we owe you $25 million but we don't have that much money. How 'bout $5 million now and we'll make payments of some kind. No, we're not going to change our business model or anything. Um...No, I don't know how we'll manage to make enough money in this dead economy with the same business plan that failed to generate adequate revenue in the good old days. But if you do things our way, you'll make $200,000,000! I don't know how but it's a really big number."

  4. its too bad. by r00tarded · · Score: 3, Funny

    he could have linked his homepage to the realname "slashdotted."

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  5. For great justice by epukinsk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Keith Teare wants us to email 'zig'? For great justice?
    zigs@microsoft.com (Zig Serafin - Corporate Development)
    What you say!! Someone set him up the bomb!

    -Erik
  6. Re:Technology? by raju1kabir · · Score: 2, Funny
    Of those 80 people at RealNames, how many were driving technology forward? Did their entire technology consist of a database mapping keywords to URLs? Three people at Microsoft could probably do that--and scale--in six months.

    Huh? I could do it in 20 minutes.

    The hard part was making anyone want to use it. That's what the 80 people were supposed to be doing.

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