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Does Open Source Matter?

2 replies on 1 page. Most recent reply: Mar 1, 2006 3:44 AM by Nicolas Nombela

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Bill Venners

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Does Open Source Matter? Posted: Feb 27, 2006 7:29 AM
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This short editorial on JavaWorld looks suggests the open source community needs to come to terms with the realities of the software business.

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2006/jw-0227-iw-opensource.html

What do you think of the author's closing question: "If commercial software companies can combine their technical know-how with the community interaction and easy access to technology available with open source projects, wouldn't that be the best of all possible worlds?"


Alex Stojan

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Re: Does Open Source Matter? Posted: Feb 27, 2006 10:20 AM
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> <p>What do you think of the author's closing question: "If
> commercial software companies can combine their technical
> know-how with the community interaction and easy access to
> technology available with open source projects, wouldn't
> that be the best of all possible worlds?"

I think it would be, but I don't think it will happen this way. The motives of corporations and open-source developer communities are obviously different. To me it looks like that companies that work with (or buy) open-source companies are doing that as a way to protect their own commercial products, which is the source of revenue for them.

Nicolas Nombela

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Re: Does Open Source Matter? Posted: Mar 1, 2006 3:44 AM
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I don't see the good. Above all, open source promotes freedom, for the developer and for the user. Commercial software companies will always try to limit that freedom for their own benefit. Freedom means dispersion and dispersion means being slow and inefficient but also means being able to get anywhere.

You may get the best of both worlds, but I don't see the good of mix them.

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