RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Open source comes from an academic mind set.  The idea is that everyone
benefits if everyone shares in the information.  Admittedly some scientists
are more selfish than others, but all in all, scientific research hasn't
done too badly with its own "open source" model.

Suppose Microsoft owned a large chunk of number theory dealing with
factorization.  <g>  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:49 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???
> 
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> The original open source software was created in 
> universities, generally
> under the MIT or BSD licenses.  These were much more free, because the
> universities were doing this for research and the quest for 
> improvment.
> These people don't care that someone else takes their 
> software that they
> developed for free and uses it commercially.
> And the assertion that open source is somehow hurting innovation is
> completely baseless.  There's been an awful lot of innovation 
> coming from
> the open-source world!  Almost all of the internet is based on open
> technologies.  The first web servers (CERN, etc) were open.  
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