Yammer CEO Says "Not Enough Ideas Left" - Agree?
Yammer CEO, after just a month of acquisition by Microsoft, has commented on Facebook that there aren't many ideas left in the Universe that : 1. Haven't been noticed by Big Internet companies, 2. Are capable of being proven and launched for ~ $5 million 3. Can survive the onslaught of the bigger companies once they 'understand' what you are after?
There's some truth in the argument. Given the way Internet is evolving, communities are being isolated, innovation is being 'sued' by the major corporations under the name of patents infringement and so on. There's no end to human creativity; yet the law industry seems to be working to make sure only a few major corporations get the benefit.
Do you think there aren't any ideas left that survive all of the above?
There's some truth in the argument. Given the way Internet is evolving, communities are being isolated, innovation is being 'sued' by the major corporations under the name of patents infringement and so on. There's no end to human creativity; yet the law industry seems to be working to make sure only a few major corporations get the benefit.
Do you think there aren't any ideas left that survive all of the above?
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Ramani AswathQuote:
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Quoted in Lemon, et al., Mark (1899). "#-Link-Snipped-#". Punch %28Magazine%29 116 (17). (See also, Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV - What has been will be again, what has - Bible Gateway "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.") Anecdotally misattributed to Charles H. Duell, Commisioner, US Patent Office, 1899, see "#-Link-Snipped-# by Samuel Sass in Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 13 (Spring 1989), pg. 310-313.
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Invention - Wikiquote
From Biblical times it has been repeatedly maintained that "all is known'. Yet innovators go on innovating ignoring this. Ignorance is bliss. -
Anoop KumarYes patent thing is some how affecting this...
But I don't think innovation is so much down that a CEO has to admit it😀
I just read this ..
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