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Apple doesn’t do market research, how 37 Signals and Dustin Curtis used A/B Testing, Hadoop, FirePHP, the Zend Framework, cross platform C++ libraries, QT, Hate Driven Development, the Google Voice brewhaha, Apple’s walled garden, Zed Shaw and the GPL, the problem with FOSS, consulting rates, Max Keiser, high frequency trading and the possibility of hyperinflation.
I’m sorry, but you just lost a listener. This episode was catastrophic. I use opensource for not having to go to my boss to buy software. And I know if our external project don’t live up to the quality, we can fix it. Try to call microsoft, they will not answer, because non-free software does not scale. Bye (wait, when I think about it, I will listen to the next episode, the economic stuff was very interesting, please talk more about micro and macro economics.)
@master geek Yeah, I figured that I would probably make a few listeners angry by criticizing FOSS. Really my only problem with FOSS is that it kind of kills a lot of opportunities for software entrepreneurship, but then I guess it’s not like you can’t make it work by open sourcing the basic version and charging for the premium version.
The fact that you liked the macro economic discussion is really surprising and funny because I was sure that most of our listeners would hate it. 😉 I love talking about that stuff even though I’m not an expert, so it’s nice to know that we can have a little more latitude in our topic selection without running the risk of boring or irritating people.
FOSS is so popular because it is Free as in beer and free as in speech. I am using FOSS because I can play with source and I can redistribute and all this is so exciting. But because of my country where no body respect licensing i look like a freak 😉
See Wikipedia: “In the context of free and open source software, “free” is intended to refer to the freedom to copy and re-use the software, rather than to the price of the software.”