But hasn't the SAMBA TNG project run out of steam? And Mozilla finally
reached 1.0, after how long? There is ultimately no guarantee that everyone
will stick around to help out with OSS. Even Linux could fall entirely out
of favor, and sooner rather than later. How many other free UNIXen are there
today?

Both those motivated by profit, and those who have other jobs and are
motivated by something less tangible, may decide to spend their time doing
other things.

Of course, if it's still new enough, the commodity hardware ought to still
be able to run something for a couple of years.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denys Beauchemin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:03 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Commitment to a product
>
<snip>
> If ever there was a case for open systems running on
> commodity platforms, Wirt has just stated it
>
> or conversely:
>
> If ever there was a case against proprietary systems like MPE
> running on a
> proprietary platform, Wirt has just stated it.
>
> Denys...

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