Re:I have a bad feeling about this
by davidw on Thursday February 09, 2012 @08:24AM
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Open source is wonderful, provides a great deal of value, and it definitely works well. For some things. It seems to work quite well when the 'currency' of exchange is patches/bug reports/feedback and that sort of thing.
It seems to be a tougher proposition for more 'end user' types of things. OpenOffice, if you recall, was created as a proprietary project, and only later open sourced, just as one example.
What your examples point to is a world where IP producers are forced to cozy up to someone who actually controls a scarce resource in order to benefit, rather than do so on their own.
(I do agree, BTW, that software patents suck and are not good, and destroy value).
It seems to be a tougher proposition for more 'end user' types of things. OpenOffice, if you recall, was created as a proprietary project, and only later open sourced, just as one example.
What your examples point to is a world where IP producers are forced to cozy up to someone who actually controls a scarce resource in order to benefit, rather than do so on their own.
(I do agree, BTW, that software patents suck and are not good, and destroy value).
(Also, BTW, "it's" means "it is").