Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

. … An apparently perfect device can provide a safe harbor for numerous threats– in the form of old and vulnerable chip designs, Trojan horses, or kill switches– that are difficult or impossible to detect.” Washington would be better off following a more ‘open-source’ approach to information sharing.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.

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