Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:02:21 -0400 | From | Scott Robert Ladd <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > I think I'm going to give up soon (much to relief of the list) because I > keep getting the same sorts of answers which make sense from a small > custom shop point of view but are simply broken from a company point of > view.
What's wrong with small business? Just because a model doesn't work for large companies doesn't invalidate the model. And I'm not convinced that the model fails on a larger scale.
> Your model is fine, there is nothing wrong with it but there isn't a lot > right with it either. You can't really grow your business under that > model. Why? Because you are essentially a consulting shop and that > isn't going to generate the revenue you need to hire more people, build > more things, get more consulting. You can keep yourself going but not > make enough to get more people going.
My business is growing; I've doubled revenues in the last year, and am building alliances with other small shops to handle larger tasks. The key, for me at least, is creating a baseline product that provides a foundation on which I build applications for clients. I'm working on two more baselines at the moment, while building a coalition to tackle larger jobs.
> Instead of coming back at me with the premise of "well, I'm eating so my > model is OK" how about coming back with a plan that says "Here's how we > make an open source based business put Microsoft out of business". That's > reality. You are just playing around on the edges, there is nothing > wrong with that, but until you have a viable plan that competes with the > big boys let's stop kidding ourselves, ok?
I'm not interested in playing with "the big boys", nor do I have a desire to "put Microsoft out of business.".
I much prefer to play in the spaces that the big boys have no interest in. I can employ several people, have a very comfortable life, and work on projects that are far more interesting and important than replacing Microsoft. It is possible to build a quality life (and perhaps a society) from an economic model that is not founded on corporate megalomania.
-- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Professional programming for science and engineering; Interesting and unusual bits of very free code.
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