Replies to post #238120 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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i think cm's pre-hiatus post made the same point, more-or-less. one can be more than a single thing.

my point isn't that a person like ss cannot be useful to an industry. it is that wave investors paid him to produce a company. the purpose of wave isn't to make tc flourish. it is, at root, to make a profit.

in the world of ss' wave, these appeared to be competing ambitions. education and evangelism were a product of the supply side model. solms thinks you make something folks want and try to sell it to them. that is, he identifies buyers rather than architects as his clientele.

cm inhabits a world full of architects and so he thinks ss was making some sort of useful progress as a thought leader. i am only really interested in how wave's ceo validates the company's products with buyers. that is, how can he produce a product which meshes with the needs and thoughts of active companies rather than dreamers.