Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 26, 2004 05:34 AM
No one or one company, nor corporation has developed in a vacuum. Knowledge obtained in school, Colleges and Universities has been the comodity, the utilization of that information has ended within closed (proprietary) doors in the form of (so called) IP.
Proprietary do take the work of others, offered in books, papers ect, then make complete use and profit from those works, in developed forms; this is the same thing as those same proprietary claim OSS is doing now. Somehow they believe, or wish for others to, that is, if it is closed, then the comodity utilization of others work (with no credit) is legal developed IP.
The limited mindset over paid development or jobs, has never been at the center of what opensource has been about. You create a work, others work on it and give back that work. No money, no investors, no business models to screw up things as we see these problems being realized in opensource now. The investors, business models and paid development is just what has locked up software and locked in the users. These old ideas did not work; why reuse them ?.
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Comodity Utilization: Nothing new.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 26, 2004 05:34 AMProprietary do take the work of others, offered in books, papers ect, then make complete use and profit from those works, in developed forms; this is the same thing as those same proprietary claim OSS is doing now. Somehow they believe, or wish for others to, that is, if it is closed, then the comodity utilization of others work (with no credit) is legal developed IP.
The limited mindset over paid development or jobs, has never been at the center of what opensource has been about. You create a work, others work on it and give back that work. No money, no investors, no business models to screw up things as we see these problems being realized in opensource now. The investors, business models and paid development is just what has locked up software and locked in the users. These old ideas did not work; why reuse them ?.
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