Am 04.10.2012 um 08:35 schrieb William H. Magill:
The Open Source Community has shot its wad. Their day is over. Unix
and its derivative Linux are dead meat. I was watching them die
before I retired.
BSD ended in 1995. Linus divorced himself from attempts by
Stallman to call LInux ... GNU/Linux, in the late 1990s.
Were it not for the direct support of Corporate entities, including
Apple and Microsoft, the Open Source folks would have no budgets.
Undoubtly there are different recognitions of what "open source" is.
Some consider it to be everything with source code available, even if
contributions are ignored. Others expect open source to come with
some sort of community, making community based development possible.
Still others wish open source to be free of commercial interests,
which apparently matches your recognition.
While the latter is indeed dying, commercially funded open source
appears to be pretty healthy. It's some mix of "the community will
fix the bugs" and open source as a marketing tool. Making source code
available has currently a surprisingly high effect on good
reputation, for whatever reason. Also, in some low budget areas being
open source is almost mandatory for becoming widespread.
Along with this shift to commercial interests apparently many people
have shifted their recognition of open source from "... where you can
contribute" to "... where somebody else fulfills your wishes for
free". Maybe this is sad, but it's what I see these days.
Accordingly, open source contributions apruptly stop when more than
trivial changes are required. As far as I can see, groundbreaking
open sourced contributions all come from commercial entities these days.
That said, if you could outline a open source model which is free of
direct commercial interests and might still work, I'm all ears.
Seriously.
Markus
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Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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