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| Aug 05, 2009 5:38 am |
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re: re: How the Internet Got Its Rules |
John Stephen Veitch
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Thomas - That's very ungenerous of you.
What were you doing in 1994 - 1996 or so?
I know that the Internet that we now know was being built and the hardly anyone was getting paid a cent to do it.
The article goes back to August 1968. There is no chance that these people were being paid to do this work as part of their jobs. Very often the most important work we ever do is stuff we are not paid for.
Most of my output for the last 15 years, is in that category. Look at both my web sites.
http://www.openfuture.co.nz/
http://www.ate.co.nz/
Both those sites have in my mind a commercial purpose, but the prime purpose has been community service and my own education. In the process of doing this work I have experience that only I can offer. Now, you can argue if that has any value if you like, but I'm sure the value, both to myself and to potential clients is high.
Most of the people involved in innovation know that when you first get a fuzzy notion of some new idea, there's probably many months, perhaps years of work before anyone else takes it seriously. (Which is often a good thing.)
Once other people do take your idea seriously and begin to fund it, the time horizon to a successful outcome is short. So many of the people on this forum are very well experienced in working for the joy of it.
John Stephen Veitch
Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.biz/
Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/
Building an Open Future - http://openfuture-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch (new win) |
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