[Sigia-l] Re: Large Orgs

[Listera]

"Lyle_Kantrovich at cargill.com" wrote:

> That's fine if you just trying to change a small pond, er, organization.
> What if you're trying to change the world?

That's why I earlier gave the example of Microsoft. That company is as
familiar with innovation as I am with mountain parachuting. The vast
majority of its semi interesting apps have been acquired from much smaller
companies. They distribute, they dictate proprietary "standards" and they
enter into agreements with third parties. These are the things a large org
often does best due its scale.

If you want to change the world, as in Warnock/PostScript, Tim
Bray/XML,TBL/WWW, Andreesen/Mosaic, etc. you don't do it in a large org,
even if you then become large(r) to sustain it.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba