Hi, I guess this person is implying that due to free software commercial software companies will be driven out of business, less people will study computer science (the assumption being that the majority of people studying CS are doing it to go into software jobs) and CS will become a dying art.
Welcome to the age of technological progress ! Ditto Power engineers, assembly language coders, chip layout engineers, and froma slightly different age - textile workers, people who shovel coal into steam engines. Its not that we need power engineers any less, we just need less of them. In the future we'll need less "grunt" coders, the demand will be more for analysts etc., as basic coding becomes more automated, as code is reused. And of course, at some point we'll have the household robot do all the mundane programming jobs for say the automated meal making system. So software engineers are subject to obsolescence like everyone else... (And I don't have the stats, so I can't comment on the assertion that free software is holding back the US economy. I thought imported cars were supposed to be doing that a few decades ago...) -kg On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > Hi all, > > This article by John Carroll in ZDNet News is rather interesting, it throws the > question that FLOSS software is a direct challenge to IT industry long term > survival and is aid in the economic distress facing the industry. > > "Software commoditization and its driving force, open source software, is given > too little attention. A large component of America's economy is information > technology, and free software undermines demand for such products, thus > hampering recovery and increasing the attractiveness of outsourced development. > " > > URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-992824.html > > --indra > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
