I think you're in agreement with each other on this point. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:06 AM, mP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > >
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