The World is Bigger than the Internet

If you are on the Internet through your own computer,
you are among the top 2% of the world's wealthiest people.

You can afford to spend a thousand dollars or more on a piece
of equipment that will be worth nothing in a few years.

PC Blues will be sharing it's profits with people who are
unable to afford food and a home, let alone a computer, through
donations to fund raising organisations for the less fortunate.


Adding Value, not Shifting it

Businesses are able to add value to the world and their own
country's economies , lifting the standard of living for people.

They are also able to shift value around with takeovers, stock
purchases and sales, company restructures, etc. which does not
change the standard of living for people in general.

Real value is added to the economy and standards of living
increased when real products are innovated and made available
to the buying market. If these products are intrinsically worth
more to the purchaser than their purchase price, and still make
the provider a profit, then value has been added to the world.

This is our aim.


Customers Don't Fund War With Competition

In the computer software market, it is becoming a trend to
make software available at below development cost to kill
off the competitors' products who cannot undersell
something that is free.

This sort of market warfare is funded by increasing the price
of another of the companies' ranges of products where the
market is already dominated.

If customers who install the free products are also purchasers
of the company's other products, then they are paying for the
free product anyway. If a paying customer doesn't use the free
products as well, then they are paying too much for their software.

PC Blues will not fund such marketing tactics with customers' money.


Make the Internet Faster

Every cyber-connected individual's dream is for a faster Internet.

PC Blues is not in the business of building bigger pipes for the
world's data, so we have gone into the business of getting your
information to be distributed in smaller packets.

This will speed up the Internet (and Intranets and networks) to
the degree that this technology is uptaken. There are already
other companies that provide this service, but you should check
out their prices (e.g. Marimba)


Bazaar vs. Cathedral Development
A few years ago, the press focussed on two large web browser
developers' differing methods of software development.

The Bazaar Model allows source code to be passed around and
fixed by anyone, resulting hopefully in more stable and useful
software.

The Cathedral Model retains full control of the source code
which is fixed and improved by a company's own programmers in
response to customer requests.

PC Blues uses the Telephone Box Development model :)
The Internet contains all the programming and technical
resources a developer needs if he has a modem and a phone line.
Upgrade Suite is proof that quality software can be created
this way, too.


Better Living Through Technology

PC Blues thinks repetitive tasks and jobs should be automated,
or made easier, so that we can throw ourselves at much harder
problems, such as cures for diseases and solutions to poverty,
pollution, and over-population.

PC Blues vision for human life in the future is one where a
citizen is provided with anything they need, and can do anything
they want so long as they do not threaten the framework of
society in which they exist. Through education, employment,
and empowerment, life for a human will be a matter of
discovering "projects" they wish to do, attempting them,
and making the results available to everyone else.

This activity will be funded by the prosperity that comes from
breakthroughs in this massive form of pure and applied research.


Educate, Employ, Empower

Until an ideal society emerges, PC Blues believes governments'
priorities are to educate, employ and empower all of it's citizens.

This will produce trust and loyalty from individuals toward
their governments.

It should be possible soon to make voting an online activity.
For people unable to afford a computer, they will be able to
use a computer kiosk in their nearest town or city.

That way, issues can be voted for by people instead of parties,
and politicians' roles will become more that of educator.