Re:Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
by abeppu on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:15PM
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> Ultimately any company that makes money is not a tech company because pure technology on its own does not make a business.
Making money is what the _company_ part of "tech company" is about ... right?
It sounds like you want to imagine a world where making tech for non-business purposes is more normalized. I also want to live in that world. But I think perhaps we're so far into a world where tech to be used by an open audience (as vs e.g. secret defense tech) is entirely the province of for-profit enterprises that people have ceased to consider that the players in tech need not be companies.
Making money is what the _company_ part of "tech company" is about ... right?
It sounds like you want to imagine a world where making tech for non-business purposes is more normalized. I also want to live in that world. But I think perhaps we're so far into a world where tech to be used by an open audience (as vs e.g. secret defense tech) is entirely the province of for-profit enterprises that people have ceased to consider that the players in tech need not be companies.