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Wed, 10 Nov 2004
Software patents, branding and broken revenue models - 12:12
Hugh Macleod of Gapingvoid wrote
again why
Branding
is dead, a lot of the points he makes tie in to other problems with big
companies in the modern era. How these companies want to hold on to the old
way of doing things and don't seem interested in trying new ways of making
money that would be less offensive to their customers throughout the
world. The problem for these companies is that they lose out in the end trying
to hang on to dying revenue models. One point in particular caught my
attention, "4. "Branding" is backwards looking. It's all about capturing past
associations. It's never about what the business could become, but protecting
what came before." as this is at the centre of how companies seem to want to
do all their business. Patents (notably
software patents)
are another similar backward looking mechanism that is broken in the
current
application of them. More of the points on branding being dead and are
provided
by Cory at boingboing, and though I have not read it this wired
article on
the subject is recommended.
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