A detailed case study of Magnatune
It was written by ORG's Michael Holloway, who did an incredible job of synthesizing information from our web site, interviews with me, and my dozens of comments.
It was written by ORG's Michael Holloway, who did an incredible job of synthesizing information from our web site, interviews with me, and my dozens of comments.
Even if you think it’s OK to copy someone else’s application feature-for-feature, the big fear for developers with something like Google App Engine is that you’re trusting Google with all of your source code. Why should small indie web developers trust Google when the first example app is a Google rip-off of a small indie web app?HuddleChat was a Google product and it certainly was a clone of Campfire. Still, it remains to be seen whether there is an ethical issue with cloning existing, commercial applications/services and releasing them to the world for free. Isn't this more or less what Microsoft and later Google became well-known -- and in some cases loved --- for? Would Gruber, and everyone else --- and I'm not excluding myself --- have a problem if it was a text-book, Startup.com-like company that had cloned Campfire and released it as a demo of an app-hosting service + framework (ala Wordpress.com), or is the criticism firmly rooted in the fact that Google is rapidly becoming a threat to [everything] in the minds and hearts of so many?
Early this past December, about two years after first hearing about it, I decided to give Fon a try. Taking advantage of a holiday offer available to me, I went ahead and ordered my own Fonera and Fontenna from their online store. Although I still have a lot of qualms about most of the security, […]
Ήταν μέσα του καλοκαιριού του 2004, ένα μήνας προ των Ολυμπιακών της Αθήνας, όταν οι κάτοικοι του Παρισιού άρχισαν να μαθαίνουν — και να αποκτούν — υπηρεσίες ADSL2+. Εκείνη την εποχή η Βρετανία προσπαθούσε να συνειδητοποιήσει πως είχε καταφέρει να παραμείνει πίσω από αρκετές χώρες της δυτικής και βόρειας ευρώπης στο παιχνίδι της ευρυζωνικότητος. Ήταν, […]