On Aug 11, 1:53 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, August 11, 2011 4:38:06 AM UTC+2, rcasto wrote: > > > And who can compete harder than a company full of money and people? With > > those kinds of resources, they are sure to beat you to the punch and there > > will be nothing to stop them from beating you to a releasable product. In > > order to be first, you will have to release a trash version first and then > > polish it later. > > That's not how this industry works. Google developed google with very little > money. Twitter did not have a lot of money. Nor did flickr. In fact, > whenever a big company attempts to replicate a startup they often fail. > Google Buzz failed, for example.
Please tell me how Google Buzz is not a copy of other social media companies. Sure its not exactly the same or even the same colour, but everybody knows its a copy, the original itself just has not been patented. > > Fortunately, in the tech scene, you can't just throw money at a problem and > end up with the best product. Due to something, presumably bureaucracy or an > unwillingness to take risks, large companies often just get it wrong, and > that's where small companies flourish. Name me a single example where a > small company is surviving (or better yet, thriving) only because a patent > is stopping bigcorp from cloning them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
