On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 15:27 +0100, Ian Lynch wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 15:04 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: > > In terms of competition, though, in the software business such things > > are sometimes naturally limited by time - VCs are usually after an exit > > in the medium-term, and they may be thinking that this kind of business > > has a life span of a similar term. After all, in ten year's time, we'll > > likely have something completely different to Flash around. > > But for an exit they would normally look for a buyer of the business or > a floatation. If the life of the business is limited so will be its > attractiveness to a buyer or stock market investors who are looking > longer term.
Indeed. I'm just thinking, though, that if they're after the "flash in embedded devices" type market (which is probably a play requiring much more than a working Flash plugin), the investment goes in to make a short-term buck, not to build a long-term business. I understand the point you're making though - are we actually sure Gnash has got VC funding here? I hadn't seen any announcement that they'd raised $/€ 10M, let alone that it was venture capital. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
