I meant "generalize and subsume" (word hinting is a killer app). -----Original Message----- From: René Micout <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 1:34 AM To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue
Even if I do not always understand the words of Randall, on the merits, I quite agree with what he says. Le 2 mai 2010 à 02:11, Randall Lee Reetz a écrit : > Also, adobe isn't doing any of its code "donkeys" any favors when it under > exploits the market through old world protectionist business practices and an > avoidance of future looking technology. As with retirement pools, an entity > will never be able to sustain old obligations on the profits of old ideas. > New ideas and new levels of profitability are the only way to pay the > obligations owed to the inventors for efforts towards past innovations. If > adobe really wants to profit from its own past it will have to figure out how > to generalive and subsume the salient aspects of its IP to a layer new > products and markets can build on top of. Holding on to software application > markets born 20 years ago is a strategy born to fail. I think IBM Is a good > lesson on how a company needs to think about maturing. Don't push your past > solutions, push the human resources and resource management and > infrastructure knowhow that your old product successes make evident. Sell > the ability to make solutions, not solutions themselves. Give away the > source as a way to market the minds. More money will flow in. Stock holders > (the original innovators) will benefit more than thy would through draconian > measures to extend the natural life of a product category. _______________________________________________ [The entire original message is not included] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
