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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Fri, 30 May 2003
Open source is about controlling our destiny
A lot of people have pointed out pro open source remarks by the president of India. Dana Blankenhorn
restated some of the key points like this:
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In other words it is Microsoft, not Linux, which is dangerous to India, because Microsoft can change its mind while India can control whatever it does with Linux.Open source is not only about the economic aspects, its about the control aspects. Customers of software are at the mercy of vendors of software. As I mentioned a few days ago, I want software vendors to be able to earn a good living (especially since I'm one of them). But I don't want to be at their mercy. Dana then goes on to sound the horn of doom:
While China may take America's hardware business away, India seems poised to take away our software business. And where would our New World Order be then?It's not that simple. There are plenty of us here in America who are working in the open source world. We have just as much ability to control our destiny as India does, but we have to decide that we're going to do that.
A tangent: Ted, you identify yourself as a vendor of software, yet wouldn't you be more accurately categorized as a producer of software?
The distinction gains importance, because 80% of the software produced is of use only to the individual entity paying for its production. The economics of such software production is much more favorable to open source models than the more typically considered "vendor" model, ala MFST, et. evershrinking al.
Posted by Wilhelm at Sun Jun 1 11:14:28 2003
The distinction gains importance, because 80% of the software produced is of use only to the individual entity paying for its production. The economics of such software production is much more favorable to open source models than the more typically considered "vendor" model, ala MFST, et. evershrinking al.
Posted by Wilhelm at Sun Jun 1 11:14:28 2003
Technically, I guess you're right, except that as a member of the ASF, I am part of an organization that is a "vendor" of software -- it's just that Apache doesn't charge any money, and we give you the source.
Posted by Ted Leung at Mon Jun 2 15:17:38 2003
Posted by Ted Leung at Mon Jun 2 15:17:38 2003
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