Posted on Wednesday 23 November 2005 - Popularity: 4%
What is Open Source really? Bill Gates wants us to think that OS developers are communists, SAP’s Shai Agassi thinks intellectual property socialism is the worst that can happen to any IP-based society, but what they really want to achieve with their comments to the mainstream press is to not lose any more money to new business concepts that achieve better results than their own methods of pure capitalism. Marc Fleury from JBoss, a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) company posted an interesting analyzes of those comments:
That economic fact is what should concern these guys, the fact that innovation is sustained by the new business models.
“Someone is doing the same thing better and cheaper”. Someone will always be doing it. It may or may not be us or mySQL in 20 years, it may or may not be IBM, but the inevitable fact remains: Someone will be doing professional open source in 20 years. The financial models are solid and proven today.
I actually think open source has still a lot of potential to grow and I’m sure the Bill Gates of this world are well aware of this and that’s exactly why they try to pin the “communist” or “socialist” label to it, it has nothing to do with what open source really is, it’s just a marketing spin against it.
November 23rd, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Yes. I am an evangelist for Open Source world and I am a communist.
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:03 am
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.