--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-5254432-0.html > > Here's a nice quote which summarizes how we all can make money from open > source: > > No. Open source is good for business. Now I should add that open source is > not for everything in software. We have a very large and successful > software business, and we're going to retain that. But open source is > great for infrastructure code. The reason is that to make open source > work, there has to be an overlap between the people who care about the > software and the people who make the software better. As you get further > up the application stack, those two groups become disjointed...so the > software that checks you into a hospital will never be open source because > the people who care about that can't write software. Not that I totally disagree with his conclusion, but I think he used a bad example -- there are people both medically and technically qualified in the field who have started open source projects because it does make sense (even apps that check you into the hospital), see the ff: http://www.freepm.org http://www.txoutcome.org I learned about these because someone built a squishdot-based site on the topic (http://www.linuxmednews.com) a long time ago. Also, because he is working for IBM (with all its investment in proprietary software), siyempre he has to say that both proprietary and open source have their place ;^) cheers, Butch Landingin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
