Kazaa and Skype Co-founder Interviewed

karvind writes "BBC is running is an interview with Niklas Zennström, the internet entrepreneur behind both Kazaa and Skype, about how his two inventions came about, and how broadband and wireless devices are shaping his vision for the future. From the interview: "On the other hand, Skype, just like Kazaa and other software, are encouraging people to buy broadband connections.""

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Owning the means of production

[Dancin_Santa]

Karl Marx's main contribution to the field of economics was the delineation of the capitalists from the workers. The capitalists would always own the means of production and always reap the rewards of a business in a hugely unbalanced manner with them at the top and the workers at the bottom.

So too is it with this "entrepreneur". He puts up the capital to fund the system and gets to reap the rewards, both monetary and psychic. However, the value of the work is provided by the workers, not the initial capital infusion.

I don't want to take anything away from Zennstrom, but I would love to see the real implementors and "little people" who keep the system running rather than a bureaucrat.

Re:Owning the means of production

[Mindjiver]

Oh boy, another crazy left winger on slashdot. Why shouldn't the man who puts up the capital (and therefore takes all the risk) be the one that reap the rewards? If the risk-taker doesn't get any rewards why should he take the risk in the first place?