Comments on Maison Fleury: Where are the OSS billionaires?

Jason, I have a CERN blog ready, haven't gotten ar...

2007-05-12T20:50:00.000-07:00

Jason,

I have a CERN blog ready, haven't gotten around to publishing that is all. Will do.

marcf

As far as capital (and no I'm not asking for money...

2007-05-02T10:38:00.000-07:00

As far as capital (and no I'm not asking for money, I have enough problems haha), grassroots that too. I don't see you as a great front-man for other people's money. You don't make a good thumb puppet. :-)

-Andy

I disagree that everything is going towards ASP. ...

2007-05-02T10:36:00.000-07:00

I disagree that everything is going towards ASP. I think the consumer and small business market is going towards ASP. And even parts of the former are constrained by physical realities and gratification limitations (even though there is Amazon, there are still book stores, Marc drives an actual porsche and doesn't just play "Need for Speed"). The latter is constrained by regulation (sarbox means NOT everyone will be using Gmail) and the desire to control your business information/quality of response ("sorry, you're not the only one affected by the latest salesforce.com, rest assured our largest customers should be up and running by the end of the day").

Marcf, agreed. As a matter of preventing WWIII we must prevent Roy from ever becoming a billionaire.

Marc, if you're still bored, drive one of these ar...

2007-05-01T13:53:00.000-07:00

Marc, if you're still bored, drive
one of these around Wall St. ;)

On a serious note, with everything going towards ASPs, software licensing in general may eventually become moot, although obviously not anytime soon.

An interesting aspect of a holding company is that if a project fails you still have the talent, and can reallocate them somewhere else. The key is of course inspiring (retaining) them.

P.S. Where is the blog about CERN?

-Jason

I will confess, if I was a billionaire, I would li...

2007-04-29T09:48:00.000-07:00

I will confess, if I was a billionaire, I would likely have my own private army.

Anyway... to Fleury's point. He advocates organic growth, which I agree with. Big money partnerships are the way to go in this scenario, as they act as seed (or series A) funding. However, it is not easy to get those big money partnerships until one has some traction, ie. a few customers under your belt.

My $0.02.

Oh, and Andy...I hear you man... it is an interest...

2007-04-28T11:37:00.000-07:00

Oh, and Andy...

I hear you man... it is an interesting concept. From concept to reality is where the difficulty lies... as I said in the article one of my current conclusions is that a large partnership probably an optimal structure. Capital need is fuzzy, either medium or large.

That's the different drum.

man

roy, blacwater...ick, scary thought

2007-04-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

roy, blacwater...
ick, scary thought

getting off my arse, yes, that is the plan. I am e...

2007-04-28T11:32:00.000-07:00

getting off my arse, yes, that is the plan.

I am enjoying the time-off though, I read a ton, I am enjoying the raw information.

I want to dance to the beat of a different drum.

You a billionaire Roy? That is a scary thought. ...

2007-04-27T18:37:00.000-07:00

You a billionaire Roy? That is a scary thought. On the other hand Blackwater is probably thrilled at the prospect of invading a small country for you.

What, Andy? Not betting on me to be the first? I'm...

2007-04-26T19:11:00.000-07:00

What, Andy? Not betting on me to be the first? I'm hurt. ;-)

I'm still betting on you to be the first one to do...

2007-04-26T16:49:00.000-07:00

I'm still betting on you to be the first one to do it or get close...once you get off of your ass ;-) I don't think there will be a one-company open source billionaire. I think it will be more of a holding company multi-serial something open source billionaire.