http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/02/22/the-pirates-dilemma/ The personal site of Jared Hanson Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:31:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/02/22/the-pirates-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-10539 Tim Burks Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:00:37 +0000 http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/02/22/the-pirates-dilemma/#comment-10539 Thanks for introducing me to this book. It's a big question: how does an established generation react when a new one arrives with different rules? I think we naturally first try to defend against change; but time and time again, that approach loses. Learning to live with change is a natural part of growing up and older. As they say, it beats the alternative, but the question here is about business: if a company's business model is threatened by an open source copying culture, maybe the problem isn't with the culture, it's with holding to a doomed way of doing business. Thanks for introducing me to this book. It’s a big question: how does an established generation react when a new one arrives with different rules? I think we naturally first try to defend against change; but time and time again, that approach loses. Learning to live with change is a natural part of growing up and older. As they say, it beats the alternative, but the question here is about business: if a company’s business model is threatened by an open source copying culture, maybe the problem isn’t with the culture, it’s with holding to a doomed way of doing business.

]]> http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/02/22/the-pirates-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-10160 Lonna Hanson Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:35:17 +0000 http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/02/22/the-pirates-dilemma/#comment-10160 I, again, really enjoyed your entry, Jared. As always, I think through your writing and compare it to what I have done for my career the past 34 years. I also think the youth culture impacts society in the form of their education. It seems to me that parents of our youth culture are demanding more and more from school systems. Schools are in a sense taking on parental responsibilities, as in before school programs, after school programs, lunch and breakfast programs. It also has an economic impact on our society in the form of tax dollars to fund all of these "extra" sides of education that go beyond the "book learning." I also think it has had a huge social impact on how our children enter their teenage years and adult roles. Hopefully we are impacting their lives to make them fiscally responsible adults and not more and more dependent on government programs. Mom I, again, really enjoyed your entry, Jared. As always, I think through your writing and compare it to what I have done for my career the past 34 years. I also think the youth culture impacts society in the form of their education. It seems to me that parents of our youth culture are demanding more and more from school systems. Schools are in a sense taking on parental responsibilities, as in before school programs, after school programs, lunch and breakfast programs. It also has an economic impact on our society in the form of tax dollars to fund all of these “extra” sides of education that go beyond the “book learning.” I also think it has had a huge social impact on how our children enter their teenage years and adult roles. Hopefully we are impacting their lives to make them fiscally responsible adults and not more and more dependent on government programs.
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