RE: I've just tried new.net's plugin. Don't.
| Yup, it's all about capitalism, and nothing about technical correctness.*sigh* The long-term maximization of ROI requires technical correctness. Unfortunately there is often alot of arbitrage by people with very short-term goals. Sadly, some of the worst technologies are the ones that get lots of short-term interest. Sean.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 smd@clock.org wrote:
| Yup, it's all about capitalism, and nothing about technical correctness.*sigh*
The long-term maximization of ROI requires technical correctness. Unfortunately there is often alot of arbitrage by people with very short-term goals. Sadly, some of the worst technologies are the ones that get lots of short-term interest.
Slightly off-topic here, but am I the only one who is concerned by the fact that virtually all businesses define "ultra long term" as 5 years or less? It seems that 5 years is about the limits of Capitalism's vision... The Internet, while very young, is still 5 or 6 times that old. Maybe the politicians and managers, by virtue of being politicians and managers, should not be allowed to be politicians and managers. Yes, I think that made sense, but it's 7am and I haven't slept yet tonight so I can't be sure. Matthew Devney Needs Caffeine
Sean: Yes, but... Now don't get me wrong, my offer to let new.net pay me to screw up our DNS was mostly toung-in-cheek. However, we are all slaves to the ecconomics of this business. I'm sure something is changing hands to establish the aliances they already have. At what price point are you willing to cooperate and if doing so enables you to expand or provide other services for your customers, isn't that the right thing to do? On another tangent, as much money as these people seem to throw away, I doubt they have enough to pay every significant network sufficiently to gain their cooperation. Realizing that, the only rational thing to do is to gain the cooperation of some key networks as leverage to force other competing services into submission. Frankly, that kind of approach sets me off pretty quick and my natural reaction is to get in their face and become a roadblock. Still, if I was one of the few selected ones benifitting from this rollout, I'd be working to see it succeed also. Could that be why we see what appears to be competing opinions on this topic? Chuck On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 smd@clock.org wrote:
| Yup, it's all about capitalism, and nothing about technical correctness.*sigh*
The long-term maximization of ROI requires technical correctness. Unfortunately there is often alot of arbitrage by people with very short-term goals. Sadly, some of the worst technologies are the ones that get lots of short-term interest.
Sean.
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[ On Friday, March 16, 2001 at 06:48:03 (-0800), smd@clock.org wrote: ]
Subject: RE: I've just tried new.net's plugin. Don't.
The long-term maximization of ROI requires technical correctness. Unfortunately there is often alot of arbitrage by people with very short-term goals. Sadly, some of the worst technologies are the ones that get lots of short-term interest.
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