An interesting comparison, Reinier. Yahoo! is a jack of all trades, but king of none.
That still leaves me with the question "why aren't they already dead?", though. Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >HI Joseph, > >You bring up a very interesting point, that is very valid in the >Ugandan >context as well. > >There are a lot of FLOSS users in Uganda, especially in the website >building >business: joomla, wordpress, drupal, ushahidi. A lot of people can >offer you a >site for a very reasonable price because they use free software. > >Unfortunately there seem to be very few people that become active >members of >the community that comes with the tools they apply. > >I think there are 2 reasons for this: > >- "Why would you? It's free, I use is, and that's it." Very valid >statement, >but as you wont learn more about the internals of the tool you use, >others >will come on to the market and do exactly the same as you: download and > >install. This will make it harder for anyone who gets stuck at this >level to >compete. > >- Very few people tend to specialise. On the average CV that we >receive, if >they were all true, most people in ICT in Uganda can do anything: From >Oracle, >to PHP, from C++ to Networking all on 1 CV. If you know so many >subjects, its >pretty clear you can not be extremely good in any of them. And that is >what a >lot of employers are looking for: extremely good people. > >So, point of the email: a lot of IT people in Uganda could compare >themselves >to Yahoo. (And btw, reading John Graham's posts is a very good idea >when you >are in IT.) And it would be great if in 2013 we can see more Ugandan >names pop >up in the forums on drupal.org (for example)! > >rgds, > >Reinier > > >On Sunday 06 January 2013 21:37:38 Joseph Mutumi wrote: > >Hello, > >This is a bit off topic but wanted to share it anyway. Think about >Yahoo before >you >plan for this year. > >Started the year by doing an audit on some of my accumulated login >credentials. >I realized a lot of them use my yahoo email which I noticed I actually >no >longer use! >Yahoo in the news for all the wrong reasons; layoffs, product >discontinuations, >CEO >woos etc. What happened to all those profit speculations? So what >killed Yahoo? > >I did a search and came across this >http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html >I think this post albeit a bit old, nails it, with one interesting >insight >being: >*Yahoo was killed because they didn't have a hacker-centric culture* > >Yahoo which used OSS failed to adopt OSS. OSS and the Linux stack is >more than >downloading packages for free, its a culture. A proven successful >business >model and >work paradigm. If you believe your organization is using OSS but not >adopted >it watch >out 2013 may be just another bad year for you. > >That said I hope a lot of the IT corps come to their senses and start >backing >community. >I hope LUG flourishes this year. > >Happy New Year > > > > >-- >rgds, > >Reinier Battenberg >Director >Mountbatten Ltd. >www.mountbatten.net >tel: +256 758 801749 >twitter: @batje > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > >Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: >[email protected] >Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > >The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: >http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them >in any way.
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