On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:23:26AM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > Convince me that in this imperfect world, as we try to make things > > more transparent, and give people more control and access over the > > software that affects them, that being able to get access to the > > sourcecode for www.wherever.com whether they want me to or not is a > > *bad* thing.
> * There's less incentive to develop new changes: unless you can afford > a stable of developers large enough to deploy new features faster > than your competitors can copy them, you gain no competitive > advantage from innovation. Software gets developed only to scratch > personal itches. This sure sounds like a (poor) argument against open source in general. -- Glenn Maynard

