Peter Mackay wrote:
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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Stan Shebs
charles matthews wrote:
(i) If
the market is really saying that there is a huge revenue
available since people 'in general' don't mind ads (the good French
verb is 'mithridatiser', I recall), why is no corporation not
sincerely chasing this money with a high-quality WP clone?
Since there are already mirrors with ads, yes, there are people
chasing that money now. A high-quality clone that could compete with
WP's name recognition would require significant investment up front,
and take several years to establish itself in the public's mind;
Your idealism and loyalty is laudable, but remember that in terms of
quality, a teenager with a bit of Linux knowledge can download the
whole lot
for free and get it operational in an afternoon.*
That would be the "low-quality" clone. One Linux box is easily
slashdotted; the current WP installation laughs at Slashdot,
or so I'm told. Our teenager would have to buy 100+ machines
and get them all working in concert before going live.
And I rather suspect that our "name recognition" is due more to being up
near the top of Google search results than any other single factor. If
Google developed their own product, I can confidently predict that it
would
be way cooler than WP, and that they would bump their own results
above WP's
in Google searches.
Well, their motto is supposedly "don't be evil", but of course if
they *were* truly evil, they would lie about their motto. :-)
Now you're sounding like Daniel Brandt... ;-)
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