Re: [Chicken-hackers] why Chicken?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

john wrote:
> Well, yeh the money would have to come from the development done after
> Chicken was ported to the platform in question. The person who did the
> port might have some development advantage while others play catch up.

Or they might just suffer a whole lot, proving a business model, then 
others sweep in and clean up after the pioneer has poured blood on the 
table.  This is how Microsoft typically does things.  Clone and 
conquer.  They never try to be 1st.  Being 1st is expensive.

> It depends on how applicable/successful Chicken could be on these
> platforms. I recently came across http://www.simkin.co.uk/. It appears
> to have had some kind of funding/commercial backing. Do others think
> Chicken might have potential in this area?

*Anything* can have potential in some new startup area.  But the way you 
get money, is talking to bigwigs and VCs.  More about your sales skills 
than the tech.  I bet we don't actually have any smooth salesmen in our 
midst.

This begs a question of what do we have.  I'll repurpose some ideas I 
had for SeaFunc about this problem.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every