Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

>    A solution that IMHO has much better chances of success is to
> create a free alternative to facebook. However, who is going to do it
> and more importantly who is going to pay for this effort? :(


You would have the same problem as taking on ebay or replacing the
internet. The economic value of a network is armwavingly proportional to
the square of the number of members. (Metcalfe's law)


It would make more sense perhaps to ask why you need a centralised web
site for this rather than tying it together distributed sites and people
together through links in the same way that rss permits news to be
aggregated without there being some central repository of the world's
news.