Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 18, 2004 12:08 AM
Perhaps it is an apt analogy.
The despite the federal and state level trucking subsidies in the U.S. freight by rail is still cost effective which is why it is still around. Passenger rail, being higher profile, has been under attack there for ideological reasons since the 1930's. There lobbying by less effective (at least for long distance and/or heavy loads) transport industry is harming the overall productivity. Just like in software. Not all closed source will go away, there is a place for high quality software be it open or closed source. But what the article author is objecting to is the interferance through lobbying effort to keep profits running for companies that couldn't otherwise make it on the free market.
If you make poor Free software, no one will use it, no harm no foul.
If you make <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?as_q=+microsoft+security+problem+&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images" TITLE="google.com">shit software</a google.com> or if no one buys it you should be free to go bankrupt and clear the way for those that can do the job, not sit there and gum up the works for those who can.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 18, 2004 12:08 AMThe despite the federal and state level trucking subsidies in the U.S. freight by rail is still cost effective which is why it is still around. Passenger rail, being higher profile, has been under attack there for ideological reasons since the 1930's. There lobbying by less effective (at least for long distance and/or heavy loads) transport industry is harming the overall productivity. Just like in software. Not all closed source will go away, there is a place for high quality software be it open or closed source. But what the article author is objecting to is the interferance through lobbying effort to keep profits running for companies that couldn't otherwise make it on the free market.
If you make poor Free software, no one will use it, no harm no foul.
If you make <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?as_q=+microsoft+security+problem+&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images" TITLE="google.com">shit software</a google.com> or if no one buys it you should be free to go bankrupt and clear the way for those that can do the job, not sit there and gum up the works for those who can.
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