Re: [Auth]Early adopters and pesky vendors

[Albert Scherbinsky]

Kurt, unless you are prepared to contribute something
constructive, go away!

"Kurt L. Sussman" wrote:
> market penetration will probably be fairly thin, even with the
> support of these commercial vendors.

How nice to be able to predict the future. How nice to be
able to sit back and throw wet blankets on the efforts of
those who are making real contributions, without
compensation.
 
> I've watched a few startups (the commercial kind), and the ones that do
> well have a balance of tech people. marketing people, and money people
> from day one.  For a free project, maybe the money people can be
> replaced with 'vendor alliance' people, no one will debate the necessity
> for great tech people, but marketing is going to be critical for this
> project to succeed, no matter how great the tech is.

Perhaps another mailing list is needed for armchair
marketers to vent.
 
Regards,
-- 
Albert Scherbinsky
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