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Bob Wyman
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Bob Wyman writes As I May Think, a personal blog at bob.wyman.us about economics and business. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Of Liquidity, Competition and Platforms”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bob Wyman's essays on why few giant tech firms arise and why open source has struggled. One commenter points to a related post on liquidity and open source integration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bob Wyman's occasional thoughts on matters of often questionable importance
Most-linked posts?
- Of Liquidity, Competition and Platforms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-15
What Hacker News says?
The reason there are few Googles or Microsoft's, etc. has more to do with the structure of competition and markets than it does with the factors outlined in your essay. The reality is that the companies that grow largest are those that foster the growth of an eco-system of smaller dependent companies. The large "focal point" companies, by the nature of their particular market disruption, create opportunities for oth…
Comment linking /main/2008/04/liquidity-and-c.html
on “Why There Aren't More Googles”Submitted Of Liquidity, Competition and Platforms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHi syntaxfree, I suggest you to read a blog post from my friend. http://bob.wyman.us/main/2008/04/liquidity-and-c.html#more I hold similar point of view like him. Because I think the current problem is in fact open source succeeds greatly, but to bring a usable system to end users requires integration and current integration on desktop linux is not that great. Another thing is for non native speakers, maybe we shoul…
Comment linking /main/2008/04/liquidity-and-c.html
on “Why open source failed”