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Re: OT: Is open source fading away?
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Shawn Gordon <[log in to unmask]>
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Shawn Gordon <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:47:03 -0800
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On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 07:24 AM, Tom Brandt wrote:

>>
>> This is the same issue as it's always been, and when all these open
>> source
>> companies were high on the hog two years ago I kept scratching my head
>> wondering what their business model, I never saw selling services as a
>> great
>> idea, the cost of acquiring the dollars is to high, but to say open
>> source is
>> fading away is just silly.
>>
>> Open source is not really supported by companies, except to a very
>> small
>> degree.  Open source is done by people in their spare time because
>> they want
>> to.  They want to scratch an itch, they want their name in lights,
>> they want
>> the satisfaction of having done something that interested them.  I'm a
>> linux
>> software company, and we sponser some open source projects, but almost
>> all of
>> my guys also work on their spare time for free to other open source
>> projects
>> that interest them.
>
> Which says what about the future of linux itself? Can companies run
> their
> businesses on an OS maintained by people who do it just because they
> feel
> like it? Is linux viable in the long term, or will it also do a fast
> fade?

Fast fade?  hardly.  Not only are companies running their business on
linux today, but major corporations like IBM are buying into it.  If you
don't think that HP is seriously looking to ditch HP-UX in favor of
linux, then you are wearing some rose colored glasses.  The thing with
Linux is that you've got the source code to it and every piece
associated with it, you can do whatever you want with it.  If you're
stuck, then troll the net and find some kernel guru's and pay them some
money to do something for you if you don't want to do it yourself.

this ecosystem of open source is very foreign to anyone that has been
working on the HP 3000 and MS Windows and has no experience with it.
Linux has a critical mass like you wouldn't believe.
>
> --------------------------------
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> 313 N. 1st Street
> Ann Arbor, MI 48103
> http://www.northtech.com/
>
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