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article to get excited about?

When you say:
"There is another Vista vaporware to get excited about" you are talking about the open source community right? The responders to any MS article are 90% open source or apple or generic MS haters. The articles are too vanilla to be instructive professionally so one can only conclude they come for entertainment and the chance to post something negative. What a waste of time and life.
Yes I fully understand the open source model and selling service won't be viable for long periods and compete against MS and other closed source. I mean why complain aobut closed source anyway. At least in the free world. Freedom to have open source, or closed source, right? Anyway if you follow the trends within this business model you suggest I don't know anything about, you find stories like Snort and then Sourcefire's closing of feature sets to sell it to the VCs. How can anyone walk away with 225 million and say it was never about the money. Yeah....and I work for free cause my family isn't important to me too. The services only model is ok but can only gain traction in commodity areas like infrastructure. Vertical markets adn other niche markets are ignored by "open source". Only a small percentage of downloaders will pay for support, snort is a good example with 100,000 users and only 800 signed up for service. Had to sell out to the VCs and close the future features to that community of users.shame i guess? No? Since VCs won't buy into the services only model startups often fail and the number of mixed source models are alarmingly on teh rise. What will that mean down the road. The original open source community is becoming the exception and i think a clash is inevitable. Products will either be forked or left for dead or there will be revenge on those who sell out. Just a guess. But even while big companies are in the game (HP is providing support for MySQL for a return of profits. I thought it was "free"? Not like free beer then eh? Large companies will find they need to produce closed source portions of the code to make the model competitive and viable for growth.
IMHO.

Posted by: xuniL_z   Posted on: 03/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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