OS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Call me clueless but surely it is all this talk of 'free software' and 'you may
> sell it but you must release the source code' that is putting many companies
> off Linux !!!
I'm not sure..
If you see companies such as IBM, Sun, Intel, they're getting more and
more involved in open-source development.
I think it's sure that "traditional" companies do care a lot about
patents, copyrights, etc, because once they get a good product, they want
to sell it to many customers, thus protecting their advantage from their
competitors.
With open-source, we're currently trying something different. Who knows
what companies such as Redhat, VA, Mandrake, will be within 5, 10 years?
We can't know..
But some people are predicting it's gonna "work", i.e. the companies are
gonna live out of this sort of business.
And, moreover, it's a social issue: we do like that our work shall be
available to many persons, for a very low price; we also do like the
possibility to change a little feature we don't like in a program [cf. the
save-as bug in Netscape, still in last 4.73... :-(], the possibility to
verify if security issues/backdoors are included in the software we use,
and generally speaking this space for freedom that it opens.
We certainly would like this to work!
We do hope so..
PS: sorry this is a bit off-topic but..
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
