Well, I thought that the Economist basically, within the boundaries that
such a journal can inhabit, completely endorsed open source.
John
At 04:05 PM 4/30/01, you wrote:
>Rick Fenton wrote:
>
>>There is a series of articles called "the beast of
>>complexity - a survey of software" now at www.economist.com.
>>Several relate directly to open source - the third article,
>>Out in the Open, particularly should be of interest.
>
>Yes, Out in the Open was particularly interesting as it cast doubt on the
>viability of the service model for supporting open source. Or more
>properly, it might be said that a couple of companies can make money
>supporting a product, but not a whole slew of them.
>
>
