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Have We Learned from the New Economy?
prostoalex writes "The new issue of Fast Company magazine looks at the so-called New Economy in retrospect. There were some myths about the Internet that were not true, or could be considered true only partially in the brief history of the Internet boom, there were people who got burned and those who nicely cashed out and then there were those who had to start a new life because of the Internet."
In Soviet Russia, learned INTERNETS YOU!!!
I'm fairly certain you've failed to post the first comment in response to this news story.
Harrumph!
Like everyone else SCO is also trying to make some money.
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
Open source's failures have taught me its utter lack of viability.
.com business models that proved the least successful during the dot-com era. They ask software developers to give away for free the very thing they create that is of greatest value in the hope that somehow they'll make money selling something else. In effect, it puts at risk the continued vitality of the independent software sector. The business model for OSS may well be attractive for software as an adjunct to hardware--the model of the '60s and '70s--or for service businesses that do not generate the revenue needed for major investments in technology. But as history has shown, while this type of model may have a place, it isn't successful in building a mass market and making powerful, easy-to-use software broadly accessible to consumers.
Open source software based on the GPL mirrors the
She may not have the looks but powerful professional women like her (and Hillary C) turn me on.
Either of them is free to whip my ass raw with a riding crop and ream me with a strap-on dildo - anytime, anywhere.