“I’ve long believed that piracy is largely a business model problem not a human behavior problem. If you give people a legal way to consume the content they want, they will pay for it. But when you make it impossible to legally consume the content they want, they will pirate it.” — Fred Wilson
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Årets största Internethändelser
“It now costs over a billion dollars a year to run Facebook, and delivering ads is how Facebook pays for this.” — About Advertising on Facebook
(Source: daringfireball.net)
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“Free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources. Your time is spent firefighting and your money all goes to the nice people at Linode.” — Don’t Be A Free User
TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year is The Protester
(Source: marco.org)
A lot of discussion lately:
I think I know what HP are envy of.
“What is true is that for a VC’s business model to work, it’s necessary for you to give up your life in order for him to become richer.” — Jamie Zawinski: Watch a VC use my name to sell a con.
“För mail till myndigheten: registrator.vr@gmail.com” — Vetenskapsrådet kör sin hemsida hos Wordpress och epost hos Google på grund av massivt datorhaveri hos Tieto
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“Your professors might understand how the academic job market works but they often have quixotic understandings of how the real world works. For example, they may push you to get extra degrees because a) it sounds like a good idea to them and b) they enjoy having research-producing peons who work for ramen. Remember, market wages for people capable of producing research are $80~100k+++ in your field. That buys an awful lot of ramen.” — Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice