'Big Short' Investor Michael Burry Says OpenAI Is Headed for 'Netscape Fate'
Posted by throwoutway 16 hours ago
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Comment by swatcoder 14 hours ago
The narrative that OpenAI could easily be a next Netscape/Yahoo/Myspace/RIM/Napster had been on the table since ChatGPT first broke into fame. Some could see that, and many refused to.
For whatever reason, the myth that being a "first mover" is critically advantageous seems to persist among technologists, even while our industry hosts so many examples of first movers exhausting themselves to clear the brush of exploratory research and market-finding only for some later entrant to confidently gallop through that now cleared path on horseback.
Comment by iberator 15 hours ago
AFIK Netscape became open sourced, so Mozilla happened, so Firefox happened so Chrome happened.
That's why open sourcing commercial products is silly and ALWAYS gonna bankrupt you!
Comment by Ekaros 15 hours ago
Is there any open sourced product that is actually main bread winner of the company developing it? Well Mozilla does it with Firefox still, but that is single customer just so that they can argue that they do not have monopoly and to drive traffic to their own product. But thinking of other examples. And I am here excluding those sold to someone else or are funded by other parts of business.
Comment by oever 13 hours ago
NextCloud by NextCloud GmbH, BaseX by BaseX GmbH, XWiki by XWiki SAS, Corteza by Planet Crust.
Comment by chuliomartinez 15 hours ago
Redhat?
Comment by Ekaros 15 hours ago
Got bought by IBM. Still, selling support for larger Linux feels slightly different for me.