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From: Marcel Jamin <marcel@jamin•net>
To: Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] improving development model (Re: Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:48:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAUq484+QTZvvd6xEw-wNdvZ+LNSi0Ug5xc0q=tD6nBP8V3=Qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <378F00E0-9F14-45E7-9395-B5C1324A81F2@gmail.com>

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> At the risk of stating cliches, the Mac came before the Windows PC…Yahoo!
came before Google…MySpace came before Facebook…

And TCP/IP came before... oh wait...

2015-06-19 14:02 GMT+02:00 Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail•com>:

>
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:45 AM, Dr Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org> wrote:
>
> That wont be good for the companies either, but they may not see that
> until they've killed it, many companies operate on a1 or 2 year
> time-horizon.  They may say screw layer2, I have a runway and I need
> micropayments to the wazoo and I dont have the dev resources for that.
>
>
> Exactly, Adam.
>
> Except, I think the genie is out of the bottle - these ideas are too
> powerful for them to be killed forever. They will probably survive even if
> this scenario comes to pass…but in a different network under a different
> name…and Bitcoin will be relegated to the history books and walls of
> museums.
>
> Most of the potential brainpower available on this Earth to make serious,
> profound contributions to this movement haven’t even begun to touch it.
> Just because you happen to run a Bitcoin startup right now…even if you’ve
> received millions of dollars in funding…don’t think that the whole world
> has low standards and is lazy! Someone WILL eventually build something
> better than we can presently imagine.
>
> First mover advantage and the network effect are vastly overrated. At the
> risk of stating cliches, the Mac came before the Windows PC…Yahoo! came
> before Google…MySpace came before Facebook…Bitcoin came before <we don’t
> know yet>.
>
>
> - Eric Lombrozo
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-19 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-19  9:22 Dr Adam Back
2015-06-19 10:45 ` Dr Adam Back
2015-06-19 11:35   ` Bryan Bishop
2015-06-19 12:02   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 12:02   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 12:48     ` Marcel Jamin [this message]
2015-06-19 12:49       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 13:43   ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-20  2:59     ` Tom Harding
2015-06-19 16:05   ` Milly Bitcoin

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