On 22 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> As for the 'Linux Lost' hugwash, I see where all my Windows-centric
> *programers* friends ended up working (if at all) and I see where I and
> other Linux people work and I know that *we* have won and will continue
> to win. All the rest is just intertia. Microsoft rose because of
> *develpers* and it goes down because of them too. It just takes time.
This confirms an amazing discovery which I had few months ago. I used to
team up with someone, who worked exclusively in MS-Windows environment -
MS-Access and Visual Basic. My target platforms were "anything but
Microsoft". After few good years, my associate ran into a dry spell
during the last few months, while I didn't have idle time.
My explanation of the observation is that the scene is full of Web
designers. Those who are somewhat better - do MS-Access and Visual Basic.
They are the ones with whom my associate needed to compete over projects.
On the other hand, the platforms, which I target, are considered to be
"arcane, unpopular or difficult" by the crowd, so I have less competition
for those projects, which do come up.
--- Omer
There is no IGLU Cabal. There will be one, when the founders will finally
have idle time due to the big economic crash of H2 2002.
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