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My cousin had some idea about some app related to health care and she was worried about someone stealing the idea. I said nobody is going to take your idea and steal it because they would hold all the risk.
But if you went through with the idea and it makes money that's when people will steal the idea because you took the risk and it panned out and so investors will come in and pay for a competing product if they are locked out of the idea.
@smallcircles @jsalvador @ben These are really great reads. Thanks for sharing.
One thing I've always told our people working on the Linux App Ecosystem is to manage for success. Once you start creating a market, you should assume that you will be co-opted because you've proved that the market worked. It's easy for others to put in the work and jump in with your extraordinary resources and pull people away.
@jsalvador @smallcircles @ben We have a lot of folks who like to cling on to the old stuff instead of marching forward. Technology isn't meant to be standing still. We have to keep evolving our software but also the communities around them should also grow too.
Community can be a double edged sword, it can be both extremely powerful but there are instances when it can be toxic as well.
@jsalvador Right? and many communities have kind of complained about this kind of culture stuff at least for mastodon. But it's sort of a similar thing.
We should be uniting together.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/116087571530458888
This is such an interesting thread as it exposes the friction between ATProtocol/ActivityPub. Clearly, there are some cultural issues.
It's important to understand and I say this often to our own desktop projects - we are always stronger together than apart.
We are not competitors. We are allies.
Understandably we might compete on investment and volunteers but those sort themselves.