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Re: Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? [message #7982 is a reply to message #7967]

Sat, 04 January 2003 19:45

tjjuggle

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Registered: December 2002

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Competition is important in marketplaces because good quality/price ratios result (optimally in ideal marketplaces). But even in profitable marketplaces (unlike ours) large corporations are born because without large scale cooperation, it's hard to create a great product. If it were not this way, we would see no Micro$ofts, Apples, ID softwares, etc... Instead we would find only 3-5 people hack shops putting out software, and those products would come and go all the time, leaving customers with broken products and no support.

All I'm saying is that if there were 2 or 3 competitors, then those products would be feature rich and well supported. Currently this BBS seems to be very good. But there's no guarantee that the developers won't get bored and stop supporting/developing it in which case other BBS's will surpass it. Rather than someone spending the time to catch up to and then surpass this board, why not just start from this board and develop from there?

There is some wisdom in your comment about starting from a new code base and tossing out the old. Refactoring (see: extreme programing books) is my preferred method. If parts of the software suck, you re-engineer those parts, throwing out code as you go. To actually toss an entire product and restart is only wise when you are going a drastically different route and the amount of code that can be reused is not worth the time it takes to extract it from the existing code base.

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		Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? By: tjjuggle on Mon, 30 December 2002 00:37
		Re: Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? By: PlatinumGamer on Tue, 31 December 2002 20:47
		Re: Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? By: tjjuggle on Thu, 02 January 2003 01:21
		Re: Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? By: Ilia on Fri, 03 January 2003 16:29
		Re: Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? By: tjjuggle on Sat, 04 January 2003 19:45
		Re: Why are there so many FREE competing BBSs? By: Ilia on Sun, 05 January 2003 23:51

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