Re: OT - Curl & patents

[Bruce Hoult <address@hidden>]

In article <pso7ko834mj.fsf@jekyll.curl.com>,
 Christopher Barber <cbarber@curl.com> wrote:

> Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> writes:
> 
> > but I will say that comparing yourself with Sun or Microsoft is unrealistic
> > to the point of perhaps being delusional.
> 
> That's kind of harsh.  I compare us to them as well as Macromedia and Apple
> because they all produce commercial programming languages and software
> development tools, not because of size.
> 
> > From what I've seen here, and a bit elsewhere, I find Curl's approach both
> > out of the mainstream and inappropriate for a startup.
> 
> Fair enough, but can you be more specific?  What should we do differently?

Try to emulate the Borland of the mid 80's, or the MetroWerks of the mid 
90's.

-- Bruce