Product design and market research
services, courtesy of Microsoft
If I sound like Darl McBride dropped his private stash in my peanut butter, please let me know, but I suggest that all the anti-Microsoft
and/or open source/free software advocating Slashdotters should welcome news
of new Microsoft and Microsoft-pimped products on Slashdot. You want
to know what the competition's doing, don't you?
No problem should ever have to
be solved twice. -
How To Become A Hacker, Copyright
2001 Eric S. Raymond
Microsoft may be a lot of things, but
dumb and impotent they're not. If you see someone doing something
smart, stand on the shoulders of giants (even evil,
grind-your-bones-for-bread giants) and build on it to do something
smarter. And when they do fumble, take time to figure what's dumb and
why, and whether it creates a vulnerability in Microsoft's business
plan that you can exploit.
Native Americans didn't refuse to run
down their oppressors with horses and shoot them with guns just
because their oppressors thought of these tactics first.
Every Slashdot article on MS stuff
could be the seed for useful analysis of what ideas are good enough
to be stolen as much as the law will allow. Shouldn't the
bazaar be able to find ways to do what Microsoft does better before
Microsoft even has time to patch their first bugs? How's that for
embrace and extend?
Take this embedded device article. Why
don't we figure out what's worth copying, work with companies that
already have the manufacturing infrastructure, undercut Microsoft on
embedded OS license price ($0.00) and outperform them on speed and
stability. (I'm not smart enough to come up with the legendary Step
2: ???, but collectively we ought to be).
Maybe people who post serious analyses
(and no, I'm not saying my post qualifies. I'm talking about
something of business presentation quality) of, or heck, a link to a
new SourceForge project for, a new open source product should
modded-up +1, Open Source Opportunity.
I want to be able to compute my
way, in every arena. I like a (good) Micro$uck joke as much as the
next guy, but let's not laugh so hard that we end up with Microsoft
Home, Microsoft Car, Microsoft Secure Digital AM/FM/CD/MP3/Karoake,
and Microsoft 911 by the time we unclench our bellies and look
around.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of open
source product analysts.
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Product design and market research services, courtesy of Microsoft
If I sound like Darl McBride dropped his private stash in my peanut butter, please let me know, but I suggest that all the anti-Microsoft and/or open source/free software advocating Slashdotters should welcome news of new Microsoft and Microsoft-pimped products on Slashdot. You want to know what the competition's doing, don't you?
Microsoft may be a lot of things, but dumb and impotent they're not. If you see someone doing something smart, stand on the shoulders of giants (even evil, grind-your-bones-for-bread giants) and build on it to do something smarter. And when they do fumble, take time to figure what's dumb and why, and whether it creates a vulnerability in Microsoft's business plan that you can exploit.
Native Americans didn't refuse to run down their oppressors with horses and shoot them with guns just because their oppressors thought of these tactics first.
Every Slashdot article on MS stuff could be the seed for useful analysis of what ideas are good enough to be stolen as much as the law will allow. Shouldn't the bazaar be able to find ways to do what Microsoft does better before Microsoft even has time to patch their first bugs? How's that for embrace and extend?
Take this embedded device article. Why don't we figure out what's worth copying, work with companies that already have the manufacturing infrastructure, undercut Microsoft on embedded OS license price ($0.00) and outperform them on speed and stability. (I'm not smart enough to come up with the legendary Step 2: ???, but collectively we ought to be).
Maybe people who post serious analyses (and no, I'm not saying my post qualifies. I'm talking about something of business presentation quality) of, or heck, a link to a new SourceForge project for, a new open source product should modded-up +1, Open Source Opportunity.
I want to be able to compute my way, in every arena. I like a (good) Micro$uck joke as much as the next guy, but let's not laugh so hard that we end up with Microsoft Home, Microsoft Car, Microsoft Secure Digital AM/FM/CD/MP3/Karoake, and Microsoft 911 by the time we unclench our bellies and look around.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of open source product analysts.