Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:51:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <200003212351.QAA13462@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003220133470.1180-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Mar 22, 2000 01:41:32 AM
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> That's interesting to know, and it will also be interesting to > see whether such problems or litigation do arise in the near > future, given the platitudes everyone's now heaping on the merits > of the "open source movement". People who have read an abstract of Raymond's "The Cathedral And th Bazaar" are writing most of the articles. They haven't read the full text, nor do they credit the person at The Foresight Institue <http://www.foresight.org/>; who coined the term "Open Source" in the first place. I think that if a professional software company were to do a formal code review on "fetchmail", the case-study basis for Raymond's paper, and publish the results, the entire Open Source movement might very well falter as "an obviously bad idea, in retrospect". The press is already starting to back up on the idea of Linux (right or wrong); see: <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2470425,00.html>; I think litigation is only going to be an issue when Open Source becomes more than a paper-dragon threat to commercial enterprises; right now they only see it as a threat on their intellectual property portfolios, if not held at arms length, like a dead skunk, and as a means of tricking the mainstream press into publishing their press releases. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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