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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
12 Sep 2004 05:23:16 AM |
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OT: Open Source |
An Unlikely Champion
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5973877/site/newsweek/
Why the anticorporate advocates of free software have come to embrace
one of the industry's biggest players
By John Ness
Newsweek
Sept. 20 issue - Open-source geeks are devout in their belief that
software should be free to all, and hold as their icon the Linux
alternative to the Microsoft commercial empire. As unpaid volunteers
who collaborate to develop open source code, they tend to be
anti-corporate types. So they watched with some trepidation as a
capitalist giant, IBM, began pouring money into Linux, capped by a $1
billion investment in 2001. Yet in the past year, the corporation
known as Big Blue has seen its reputation in the global open-source
community shift from suspect sugar daddy to knight in shining armor.
Open Source
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Open+Source%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Open+Source%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Open+Source%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Open%20Source&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
I.B.M.
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=IBM&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
SCO
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SCO&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SCO&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SCO&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=SCO&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Linux
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Linux&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Linux&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Linux&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Linux&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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| User: "Lee Schoch" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Open Source |
12 Sep 2004 06:45:21 PM |
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maff wrote:
An Unlikely Champion
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5973877/site/newsweek/
Why the anticorporate advocates of free software have come to embrace
one of the industry's biggest players
By John Ness
Newsweek
Sept. 20 issue - Open-source geeks are devout in their belief that
software should be free to all, and hold as their icon the Linux
alternative to the Microsoft commercial empire. As unpaid volunteers
who collaborate to develop open source code, they tend to be
anti-corporate types. So they watched with some trepidation as a
capitalist giant, IBM, began pouring money into Linux, capped by a $1
billion investment in 2001. Yet in the past year, the corporation
known as Big Blue has seen its reputation in the global open-source
community shift from suspect sugar daddy to knight in shining armor.
I don't know if I agree that all software should be free but Linux
rocks. I have had to use every network operating system (MicroSoft,
Novell - a bunch of UNIXs) but Linux is my preference for alot of
network services.
Linux is being used by really large companies now and goverment agencies
the savings for some will be huge. They get software that is being
debugged and updated by thousands and thousands of people not just their
own staffs.
Open Source
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Open+Source%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Open+Source%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Open+Source%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Open%20Source&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
I.B.M.
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=IBM&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
SCO
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SCO&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SCO&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SCO&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=SCO&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Linux
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Linux&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Linux&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Linux&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Linux&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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| User: "Elf M. Sternberg" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Open Source |
13 Sep 2004 12:58:03 AM |
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Lee Schoch <lee@nospam.dot> writes:
I don't know if I agree that all software should be free but Linux
rocks. I have had to use every network operating system (MicroSoft,
Novell - a bunch of UNIXs) but Linux is my preference for alot of
network services.
The point is not that "all software should be free" but that
software, by it's very nature, is easily turned into a commodity
product. This is one of the big secrets that Microsoft and Sun and
company refuse to believe-- just as anyone can grow an apple tree, and
anyone can build a house, *anyone* can write an operating system. It's
not a mystery anymore. Really big and heavily integrated projects, and
boutique projects, require some speciality, but as the tools for doing
these things become more and more ubiquituous (again, those *tools* are
built on commodity knowledge), the definition of "really big" will get
bigger, and boutique will become more and more rarefied.
Elf
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