Competition Semantics

Submitted by Morbus Iff on Thu, 2002-09-19 17:10

Paul Victor Novarese on competition:

It seems a lot of people don't understand what the word "competition" means. Just because a product is free, or open source or whatever doesn't mean it doesn't compete with a product that is closed-source and commercial. Anyone who says Amphetadesk doesn't compete with Radio is sadly mistaken.

Good read. Sadly, I don't have brain power to investigate further. Random immediate thought: my "incentive to improve" AmphetaDesk is based on my user's desires and emails (I've got hundreds of feature requests, many of which I think are viable), not based on what Radio Userland is doing. That shouldn't matter, it seems, since a user could a be recovering Radio refugee, giving me insight into AmphetaDesk's "missing" features (when compared to Radio). Sigh. I wish I had more time to think.