On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> It won't be the most technically efficient language, but the one > geopolitics elects as the winner. English and Mandarin are the only > two real contestants in this world view, and their present hegemony is > thanks mainly to a violent imperial past, and has nothing to do with > technical brilliance. Yup. Similarly, I like to tell startups that a technology edge is not a sustainable business advantage, since technology can be acquired (bought/copied/whatever) rather more easily than other kinds of entry barriers. This is not a message that a technologist likes to hear, though. :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
