1. Patents or their follow up R&D are the sole source for all of the US's wealth. The US is not set up to produce commodities.
2. Currently, the majors (huge players) have made it impossible for 'regular people' to get ahead. They are the "lawn mower" in that they don't care and do one task extremely well. 3. Will the US be a 'Banana Republic' or the 'Land of Opportunity'? I was a 'working-stiff' like you for most of my career and patents were very abstract to me without any personal meaning. Gradually, over the past 8 years, the 3 three "truths" became obvious to me. It occurred to me to go "back to my roots" and look at OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana/Illuminos, DTrace, Zones, Crowbar, and ZFS. In Oct 2018, they are "ghost projects" without any personnel to steer the ship or to give them any life. The company that was run by Bill Joy and Scott McNeely is no more and they were formidable competitors with Nortel, who is no more as well. You have a fine pedigree and I would like to see that you make the best use of it. One of the strengths of the US economy is the ability to change and people can change. Another "strength" is the extreme short sightedness financially. The Chinese will have to be more short sighted than the US is, and it is hard to do. The Japanese had a long term vision and the Americans gladly sold them Hawaii, Sony Pictures, et al and their stock market has not been the same since then. Another strength is that you can get any personality type right inside the US. It is not just NC or California (or Texas, for that matter). Generally, the people in California are there from the Gold Rush days. You had to be creative in order to get to California and not to die on the trail. They are famous for Silicon Valley and they will not work for free. The people of Eastern NC are descended from the Scots, who don't like to take any risk at all. They are famous as a place to come after you've made it to set up a division headquarters. The politicians of NC will make it worthwhile. The benefit for you (or me) would be to stick it out for a long time in Illuminos, DTrace, ZFS, Crowbar, etc. without payment in hopes that this can come back or exceed its former glory. Words don't mean anything - actions do and your actions so far is that you don't care and are not about to work for free. Linux has won and I am seeing if there is a place for FreeBDS (which is technically superior. Remember the Beta standard?). I'm writing this message when the headline in the newspaper today said "IBM to buy Red Hat for $38 Billion", This will make the Sun/Oracle fiasco look like small potatoes. IBM is very experienced and knows how to make a $. Mike Mazarick --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------- dtrace-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184261/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769126 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
