From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 2 8:17:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6E4937B69B for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:16:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23515 invoked by uid 100); 2 Feb 2001 16:16:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14970.56694.347744.749982@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:16:54 -0600 (CST) To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quote about open source In-Reply-To: <20010202140505.B91552@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010202140505.B91552@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick types: > > I just read this remark by BEA Systems founder and former Sun VP William > Coleman III: > > `The second problem is, and this is my most controversial remark, open > source is the end of innovation and it's the end of innovation because > open source can't happen until it's so broadly understood what's going > on that the innovation has slowed down to incrementalism.'' > > This is the first comment of this type I have ever heard. Any thoughts? Didn't someone at MS essentially claim the same thing in the halloween letters? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message