Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 23, 2007 03:24 AM
to compete against those products WITH all the bells and whistles.
You'd think anybody who could program a system for studio-level editing would be able to.
Of course, if that's not your market, then it wouldn't make sense.
Still, it seems the issue is "first mover advantage" and "commercial level FUNDING advantage."
A company that gets ten million or fifty million or whatever in investment capital can afford to hire fifty programmers and grind out an advanced tool. If they then can sell and develop that tool for the next five or ten years without significant competition, obviously it's going to be hard for a small group of OSS programmers to compete off the bat.
Hard - but not impossible. People need to start looking at the industry leaders, then figure out where they ALL went "wrong" (i.e., haven't kept up with possible technology because they were too busy making money and marketing), then apply new technology and new approaches (preferably from outside the niche market itself) to design a whole new way of doing things.
This is how innovation is done.
In software, NOBODY is invulnerable to being knocked off the top.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 23, 2007 03:24 AMYou'd think anybody who could program a system for studio-level editing would be able to.
Of course, if that's not your market, then it wouldn't make sense.
Still, it seems the issue is "first mover advantage" and "commercial level FUNDING advantage."
A company that gets ten million or fifty million or whatever in investment capital can afford to hire fifty programmers and grind out an advanced tool. If they then can sell and develop that tool for the next five or ten years without significant competition, obviously it's going to be hard for a small group of OSS programmers to compete off the bat.
Hard - but not impossible. People need to start looking at the industry leaders, then figure out where they ALL went "wrong" (i.e., haven't kept up with possible technology because they were too busy making money and marketing), then apply new technology and new approaches (preferably from outside the niche market itself) to design a whole new way of doing things.
This is how innovation is done.
In software, NOBODY is invulnerable to being knocked off the top.
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