Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 24, 2004 08:28 AM
You remind me of the dot-commers. That this new way of doing things will bury the old way. Turned out not to be true, and it did a lot of collateral damage (people lost tons of money because they forgot fundamentals like revenue and profit).
Nothing is as simple as it seems -- even your example. One reason open source is so popular is precisely because of the MS monopoly ("anything but microsoft"). Because the DOJ didn't fix that problem, and because of MS' predatory business tactics (witness what they did to Netscape), the only possible competitor that will survive must not depend upon revenue. Hence, open source.
Nowhere did I say it isn't gaining. What I did say was that contributing to it is economic suicide for professional programmers.
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Re:To hell with software industry
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 24, 2004 08:28 AMNothing is as simple as it seems -- even your example. One reason open source is so popular is precisely because of the MS monopoly ("anything but microsoft"). Because the DOJ didn't fix that problem, and because of MS' predatory business tactics (witness what they did to Netscape), the only possible competitor that will survive must not depend upon revenue. Hence, open source.
Nowhere did I say it isn't gaining. What I did say was that contributing to it is economic suicide for professional programmers.
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