On Nov 28, 2007 10:36 AM, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > It is their product just like you own your own property. If you > > choose to > > keep the property, say a house, improved then fine. If you live in > > it and > > don't fix it up over time so what it is yours. > > And this is why it is always a risk to invest your time into > developing a product that you can't control. If you're like Stephen, > who doesn't give a crap what happens to the code after he gets paid, > it doesn't matter. But if you are either developing a vertical market > product that you wish to sell for a while, or are developing an > application on which your business will depend, it is a HUGE risk to > base it on a product that you cannot control. > > Why would I not give a crap about my work? Sorry but you are far off base there Ed.
I disagree with your technology argument as well. Take java for the past 10 + years. Millions of products, sites, applications, etc were written with java. Some succeeded and others never saw the light of day. Was it because of the platform? Probably not. We work in an industry that changes fast. If you were a painter I'd say put those oil based paints away we don't have time to wait for it to dry. If you are in real estate and you were into flipping houses because you could fix it up and sell it quick the world caught up to you as well. These things happen. It is an side of risk that all business has to be aware of. Now why would we as very smart people fail to be aware of it? --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
