Bait no doubt :-)
My 'issues' are different. Apart from business models being few and
successes, in truth, even fewer, there is the small matter of the
largely non-existent community participation that is trumpeted as one
of the key advantages of Open Source. What is the magnitude in real
terms? I mean what percentage of 'participants' in these projects
really add value? That to me is one of the biggest disappointments.
That the vast majority, even when they could do otherwise, are content
to merely consume. I don't see any new Linuxes, or GCCs, or VIs, or
Mozillas... Surely it can't be that we've run tools to (re-)create as
open source, can it?
Time to get off the high horse. PostgreSQL benchmarks: very
interesting.
P.
On Feb 05, 2008, at 11:05, Ernest - (AfriNIC) wrote:
P. A. Bagyenda wrote thus on 2/5/08 11:02 AM:
>
> Just when one is starting to lose one's faith in this
> whole Open Source religion
Why lose interest? Open-source is becoming a perfectly lucrative
business.
Hatch an idea, get the community involved to perfect it, sell it for
billions of USD to the competition and go buy yourself a villa in
hawaai.
Try it with your butterfly, parlix and zorilla - you may never need
to code again Paul ;) !
eb
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