someone noticed this one?

[Troy Rollins]

On Oct 22, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>>
>> I have to say that i am not very happy with these news,
>> especially with the two marked items above...
> Or the one about "porting solution originally written in ..." ?
> Doesn't a very similar statement appear on a number of websites of 
> contributors here ?

This seems to be a trend in small software tool development 
companies... competing with their own clients.

REAL software went the other way, and charges a fee to be on their 
reference list, and then they provide business leads to those 
companies, rather than taking the work for themselves, which I'm told 
is extremely successful for both them, and the companies which buy in 
to their service. This provides them an alternate revenue stream, and 
takes advantage of their marketing expenditures, without biting the 
hand which feeds them. But it also requires some marketing critical 
mass, which they have going for them.

RunRev is in a bit different position. It's too bad, because it 
generally results in some bad blood with developers with overlapping 
services... although the claim is always that it won't.

I've seen this before, and I'm glad that I'm not one of the developers 
who will lose work over this sort of thing. I feel for those who may. 
The bigger disappointment, is that it always takes away from the core 
product development, and there are generally a lot of resources devoted 
to what become proprietary solutions for a specific "enterprise 
service."

Tribeworks went this route with iShell... which is now almost 
completely off the map.  :-(

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Troy
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