http://disqus.com/by/jpvanderspuy/enWed, 06 Aug 2008 05:34:42 -0000http://www.vinnylingham.com/free-software-is-the-future.html#comment-1110122<p>check out Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days of the web, very cool.</p><p><a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html">http://www.ted.com/index.ph...</a></p>jpvanderspuyWed, 06 Aug 2008 05:34:42 -0000http://www.vinnylingham.com/free-software-is-the-future.html#comment-1110007<p>Whats up Vin.</p><p>Awesome post, it's been months waiting for you to touch base on the "free" concept the internet is evolving into and glad to see you're ahead of the pack. Surely this makes for great discussion.</p><p>I see too many different and sometimes rather unorthodox approaches to free software and open source, but you have done a great job with proving (through synthasite) that it is possible to run a big company off a free based software front-end.</p><p>Incorporating free software with a business model back-end is not easy, though it is also not as tough as some people may think. Requires much creative thinking and one needs to understand the elements of approach and how your "free" software will keep the end-user tuned in, in order to pull it off.</p><p>As you mentioned, it will never be 100%, but Trail and error is a must and living by Guy Kawasaki's generic fundamentals you will be well on your way in incorporating perfection into your software's future goals and broaden an already widespread way of approach to free software.</p><p>Starts off with creative thinking and realizing the short term as well as long term goals of an (the) end-user market, then design, more creative thinking, coding... etc.</p><p>I've seen some really cool startups that's driven by a great design and backbone system, though creative thinking by implementation lacked and in turn did not keep their user tuned in.</p><p>You have to have a balance through every department and phase of development in order to make things mold, whilst maintaining your usability and user friendly goals on top of your list!</p><p>Great post Vin, food for though A-grade!</p><p>Regards,<br>JP</p>jpvanderspuyWed, 06 Aug 2008 05:02:37 -0000