Why Google isn't the next Microsoft
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| Microsoft also has a history of being a monster. In the 1990s it
| used its market power to strong-arm competitors and allies alike.
| It repeatedly flouted antitrust laws, and was ultimately declared
| an illegal monopoly in 2000.
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| The two corporate cultures, also, could not be more different.
| Microsoft's coders had to slave away on endless rounds of
| bug-fixes, hitting their ship deadlines or facing the
| consequences. But with the Web as their distribution network,
| Google's engineers can afford to throw up a beta version of a
| website such as Google News, and tweak it as they go.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/11/magazines/business2/google_defense.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2007041210
http://tinyurl.com/2hdovt
Linux release cycles are more like this as well.
Yahoo! Open Source CMS Conference
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| Attendance was much higher than I'd expected. Jeff Robbins
| (of lullabot.com, former O'Reilly employee, and husband of author
| Jennifer Niederst-Robbins), one of the conference organizers, said
| they targeted the conference at 250 based on the space Yahoo had
| available, and they had to close registration after less than a
| week with 380 registered.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/yahoo_open_sour_1.html
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