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<pre wrap="">On 2/23/06, Laura Scott <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:laura@pingv.com"><laura@pingv.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> This comes down to the question of whether the disruptive technologies and
economies of this new era can truly compete with the centralized megacorp
models.
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What do you mean by this?
Is Drupal considered a distruptive technology?
What makes it disruptive? (I've been living under a rock for a while...)
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology</a> -- And I think the
concept bleeds into disruptive economies, as well. I suppose that's
what Seth Godin et al. have been blogging about all these years now.
Also the Cluetrain.<br>
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<pre wrap="">the opposite end of the paradigm, and appeals to different people who think
differently than those who want the corporate-sponsored service.
Who uses AOL and who puts their internet services together themselves?
Who blogs on Blogger and who downloads Wordpress or MT (or Drupal!) and
does it themselves?
What Google does certainly is worth noticing, given how huge they are. But
I truly wonder at how a megacorp can compete in a marketplace that's all
about personal empowerment, which is where we, in all our Drupal-related
niches, live.
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I think you need to make a distinction between what kind of personal
empowerment you're talking about.
Drupal does not empower the majority of the public, it's too hard to
use. It empowers programmers and systems integrators.
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I'm not talking about the majority of the public -- I'm talking about
the long tail, again. Anything owned and branded by Google is not going
to be empowering, in the end -- not if there are licensing ownership
issues involved.<br>
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Blogger, Pages, Typepad, that empowers the general public. People who
are very intelligent and skilled in something other than web
application installation. There are way more of these people than PHP
programmers and sysadmins.
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These systems empower people, yes, but only as long as it's convenient
and/or profitable for the megacorps.<br>
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Competing with Blogger and Typepad isn't really what Drupal is about.
Leave that to companies like Bryght.
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I believe we are in agreement here.<br>
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Drupal development should be focused on solutions, on buildling the #1
OS CMS. I honestly think we're almost there. Add in i18n support, make
it easier to use, and we got a world class product.
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I feel that Drupal "should" become what the community makes of it. It's
that organic quality that gives it much relevance and appeal.<br>
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Laura<br>
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