{"id":19896,"date":"2002-04-03T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2002-04-03T08:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2002\/04\/03\/you-want-to-know-what-happens-when-you-take-an-innovator-and-cut-it-to-shreds"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"you-want-to-know-what-happens-when-you-take-an-innovator-and-cut-it-to-shreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2002\/04\/03\/you-want-to-know-what-happens-when-you-take-an-innovator-and-cut-it-to-shreds","title":{"rendered":"You want to know what happens when you take an innovator and cut it to shreds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Wed Apr  3 09:55:37 MST 2002 --><\/p>\n<p>\nYou want to know what happens when you take an <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.napster.com\/\">innovator<\/a> and cut it to shreds?  <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/16019\">The undesirables come slinking<br \/>\nout of the shadows<\/a>, offering their own solutions; but since there&#8217;s no<br \/>\nmarket leader to beat on the <i>merits<\/i> of the solution, there&#8217;s no<br \/>\nincentive for these guys to offer meritorious solutions.  Think about it: If<br \/>\nNapster were still around, going strong, would anybody put up with <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/732958.asp?0dm=C12LT\">KaZaA&#8217;s backdoor<br \/>\nbullshit?<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen again, maybe people are just stupid and don&#8217;t care if advantage is taken<br \/>\nof them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAaron Sorkin references this phenomenon in <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/Title?The+American+President\">The American<br \/>\nPresident<\/a>: &ldquo;They&#8217;re so thirsty for [leadership] they&#8217;ll crawl<br \/>\nthrough the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there&#8217;s no water,<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll drink the sand.&rdquo; &#8230;  &ldquo;People don&#8217;t drink the sand because<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re thirsty.  They drink the sand because they don&#8217;t know the<br \/>\ndifference.&rdquo; [<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Quotes?0112346\">IMDb<br \/>\nquotes<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know what happens when you take an innovator and cut it to shreds? The undesirables come slinking out of the shadows, offering their own solutions; but since there&#8217;s no market leader to beat on the merits of the solution, there&#8217;s no incentive for these guys to offer meritorious solutions. Think about it: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}