I was watching this movie called "antitrust" and couldn't help thinking how premitive their understanding of technology was back in 2001.
First of all, why would an IT guru toss around CD/DVDs when they need to show some piece of code. Wasn't shared storage already there in 2001.
Secondly, it's ridiculous that a company would have to kill for a piece of GENIUS code.
Because in the internet era, the code itself is no longer the most important part of a working system. Infrastructure and data are the new competitive advantage. Why would anyone want to kill for a piece of code that you can simply search and download from sourceforge or google code.
But without the training data that's driven the algorithm, without the scalable infrastructure to support massive deployment, it just won't work as well as it was designed for.
Because in the internet era, the code itself is no longer the most important part of a working system. Infrastructure and data are the new competitive advantage. Why would anyone want to kill for a piece of code that you can simply search and download from sourceforge or google code.
But without the training data that's driven the algorithm, without the scalable infrastructure to support massive deployment, it just won't work as well as it was designed for.
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