“The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.” RunningCompanyBrokenModelsDistributionLinuxBusiness ModelsNapster Author:Darl McBride
“The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCoursesCompanyBrokenFitModelsMachinesConventionalNeed A ChangeYou Need To Change Author:Peter Senge
“China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.” WayTakenBrokenModelsFundamentalsWesternChinaChineseSplitsUnfairImmoralGoing To Work Author:Francis Fukuyama
“What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentFacesLawHellImpossibleTreeBrokenInternetModelsTradeInternationalCurrentsCreatorErasTreatiesCopyrightInternational TradeDead TreesLaw Making Author:Charles Stross
“As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.” CharacterHappensRunningAliveBuildingBrokenEssentialsIntellectualModelsResearchAbstractFascinating Author:Lauren Groff
“When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.” LongEnoughBrokenModels Author:Grace Jones
“I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.” KnowsLittlesSeemsBrokenModelsVersionsTypical Author:Michelle Williams