Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 24, 2004 06:24 AM
I think you are a bit overreacting here. The world is not about going to end. There will always be important commercial projects to do. However, the commoditization of the OS and productivity tools will happen.
But there is nothing to be afraid of. There are tons of things to be accomplished and whole new avenues of research to do. Before the OSS crowd will close on your flagship product (IF it is mainstream enough), and that is 2-3 years, you better be working on a new one. History has shown OSS to produce mostly clones of existing stuff. If you have the brains (which you should have, with your credentials), I am sure you will find a few ideas to implement that are of no interest to OSS developers yet.
And, there is always the business of building customised solutions.
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Re:Article completely misses the point.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 24, 2004 06:24 AMBut there is nothing to be afraid of. There are tons of things to be accomplished and whole new avenues of research to do. Before the OSS crowd will close on your flagship product (IF it is mainstream enough), and that is 2-3 years, you better be working on a new one. History has shown OSS to produce mostly clones of existing stuff. If you have the brains (which you should have, with your credentials), I am sure you will find a few ideas to implement that are of no interest to OSS developers yet.
And, there is always the business of building customised solutions.
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