[dba-Tech] The latest Debian

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Mon May 13 02:48:09 CDT 2013


As much as I find the statement below a little too "optimistic" and
idealistic; the markets have bourne out much of these assertions, some ten
(15?) years later.

Jim 

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On 2013-05-12 7:14 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> An very interesting summary on the OSS versus Close source society:
>
> " ...in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because
cooperation
> is morally right or software "hoarding" is morally wrong, but simply
because
> the closed-source world cannot win an evolutionary arms race with
> open-source communities that can put orders of magnitude more skilled time
> into a problem. "
>
> Any thoughts on the above observation?...true, false, simplistic?

I'm not sure. It's a bit redolent of those hyperconfident assertions in 
early internet days that no authoritarian government could successful 
block or control it for long.

PB


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