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by Aristotle (5147)

To put it in Joel Spolsky's words: never outsource your core competence. If your core competence is graphical effects in a game, don't license a 3D engine from someone else. And if you have customers, don't outsource your customer support.
- what customers? (Score:1)
  
  by brev (1827) on 2005.02.07 5:54 (#38049)
  
  Software companies don't have customers, they have users. You know the old joke about the two industries that have "users": software and illicit drugs.
  
  Seriously? The addiction model of business is frighteningly prevalent in what we do.
  
  Destroy capitalism. kthxbye.
  
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