Linux is seen as the Shining Star of the Open Source development model. It pits the old proprietary software development model against the new OS model, and proves that the OS model can in fact, create a highly complex, integrated system stretching across many different platforms and markets.
Proprietary vendors are fighting for their lives now. People are suddenly realizing that they no longer need the huge monolithic software vendors like Microsoft and Sun.
However, if it can be shown that Linux is successfully only because the underlying code was stolen from the much smarter, monolithic software vendors, then the whole OS development model collapses. It would show that Open Source developers really aren't as good as the proprietary companies, that Open Source software teams can't be properly organized and coordinated as well as their tightly structured counterparts at MS, Oracle and Sun, and that they are only successful because they build their systems on bits and pieces that they have spliced together from IP they have pilfered from existing products.
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Posted by: Charles Tryon on May 19, 2004 03:33 AMProprietary vendors are fighting for their lives now. People are suddenly realizing that they no longer need the huge monolithic software vendors like Microsoft and Sun.
However, if it can be shown that Linux is successfully only because the underlying code was stolen from the much smarter, monolithic software vendors, then the whole OS development model collapses. It would show that Open Source developers really aren't as good as the proprietary companies, that Open Source software teams can't be properly organized and coordinated as well as their tightly structured counterparts at MS, Oracle and Sun, and that they are only successful because they build their systems on bits and pieces that they have spliced together from IP they have pilfered from existing products.
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