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| TechnologyLifespan | 2003-10-09 08:00:24 GMT  |  |
| Who will pay for software | | 2003-10-09 08:00:24 GMT | Who will pay for software and how will they pay? Today software and music, software and writing, software and all kinds of creativity, are indistinguishable. There is no clear line dilineating where one ends and the other starts. Nor is there a line between people. To be creative in either technology or the arts requires an understanding of both.
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| Hackers and painters | | 2003-10-09 08:00:23 GMT | I think hackers just have to resign themselves to having a large random component in their reputations. In this they are no different from other makers. In fact, they're lucky by comparison. The influence of fashion is not nearly so great in hacking as it is in painting.
If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.
The place to fight design wars is in new markets, where no one has yet managed to establish any fortifications. That's where you can win big by taking the bold approach to design, and having the same people both design and implement the product. Microsoft themselves did this at the start. So did Apple. And Hewlett-Packard. I suspect almost every successful startup has.
It seems surprising to me that any employer would be reluctant to let hackers work on open-source projects. At Viaweb, we would have been reluctant to hire anyone who didn't. When we interviewed programmers, the main thing we cared about was what kind of software they wrote in their spare time. You can't do anything really well unless you love it, and if you love to hack you'll inevitably be working on projects of your own.
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| AT&T TTS (Text to speech) | | 2003-02-18 02:43:08 GMT dev | | Please visit our new commercial web site http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/ for product information, sales, support and demos both live and pre-recorded. We expect to have interactive demos of our Spanish and German TTS available in March, 2002. |
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