Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 13, 2004 08:46 AM
The fact is, when you have an easily available public pool of information the efficiency of your R&D dollars screams upwards. Open Source software has proven that it can compete head to head on technical merits in the real world. The "closed shop" strategy of R&D has proven itself to be unable to compete in the marketplace because it is too damn expensive. These are hard bottom-line conclusions... The idealists are the ones who think they can stick to an obviously failing strategy and then resort to legal wrangling when they find themselves losing.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 13, 2004 08:46 AMof information the efficiency of your R&D dollars screams upwards.
Open Source software has proven that it can compete
head to head on technical merits in the real world.
The "closed shop" strategy of R&D has proven itself to be
unable to compete in the marketplace because it is too
damn expensive. These are hard bottom-line conclusions...
The idealists are the ones who think they can stick to
an obviously failing strategy and then resort to legal
wrangling when they find themselves losing.
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