I like the idea of the co-dependence between big and small companies. Small companies need to become big companies or sell their ideas to big companies for the larger companies to take over. It's a nice concept.
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On the other hand, the rest of us are really at the mercy of the BigCo's. While I agree totally that we programmers are here to serve the users (I preach that every day, telling the users to expect more of techies, esp to expect the complete truth) one little change from one of the platform vendors can and often does put lots of LittleCo's into the dumper. Try to understand, we're not wrong, maybe your intentions are good, then you can do much better at staying out of the way. In the meantime it's getting worse not better. Also, one more thing, I don't do vertical apps; and your boss needs my horizontal ones as a source of new ideas. When was the last time Microsoft shipped something really new that originated inside Microsoft (not just the code, the idea and the design). Obviously it happens, I'm making a point. There's a synergy between large and small, even a co-dependence. The small guys have always known that. The big guys, for a variety of reasons, haven't. In the case of smaller newer Big's, like Marc Andreessen's Netscape, not understanding the power of independent developers can be fatal (for the company, Marc is still alive). It's exactly at this point, an inflection point, that Google is at right now, imho. [Scripting News]
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