Helpful,
I read your link three times.
The question I posed was, "SKS totally loses me every time he does this script. What I'd like to hear is the companies that made money off of USB, Ethernet, and CD Roms. Tell me, who made money off of USB ports"?
You rephrase that to, "Why do standards matter?"
Now, that is NOT my question at all. The question – for the umpteenth time – is who made money off of standards... and not just standards... HARDWARE standards, as cited by SKS.
No one stepped forward to show that they knew the answer, except scorpio. With regard to CD Roms, scorpio noted that the record companies made money off it! ... He is right!
There is only one problem here for me. Wave isn't the metaphor for a record company in this emerging TPM technology... as best I can see. Am I missing something?
In your article, the CEO of SUN concludes with:
So I'd like to answer once and for all the question, "how does Sun monetize Java?" with a historical reference: the same way GE and General Motors have monetized standard rails, Vodafone monetizes GSM, banks monetize ATM networks, and oil and gas companies monetize the fact that my car can use "gas."
The Java community, which we steward, drives a broad array of platform standards, among an even broader array of industry participants. That activity levels a playing field, that just so happens to be the single biggest playing field the technology industry has ever seen. The network is a commodity. We should all be celebrating.
Are you likening Wave to Java? Does SKS know? Aren't these the open source/EFF demagogues? ;~) Do THEY know how to make money?! They do seem to have more fun.
If that is relevant, why isn't SKS citing the same? But no, SKS cites instead USB ports, Ethernet, CD Roms and... all hardware. The internet can hardly be considered a hardware standard.
So tell me again, yes you were right, I'm too stupid to understand the article, tell me in your own words, how is Java relevant to Wave?
Unclever
AI
