[NMLUG] SCO vs Open Source

[Don Wilde]

Ken Long wrote:
> Part of a letter sent to the US House of Representatives and Senate:
> 
> "...we are firm in our belief that the unchecked spread of Open Source 
> software, under the GPL, is a much more serious threat to our capitalist 
> system than U.S corporations realize."
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1455153,00.asp
> 
> 
> Personally, I think he's right but I don't think it's going to be a bad 
> thing.
> 

Absolutely. There will still be room for profitable business, but this 
whole economic sector will be radically different than it has been. 
There will be far fewer "product sectors" that can be 
corporation-dominated.  Things like anti-virus tools might still be 
capital-intensive, but everything from office suites to tool-building 
tools is going to have open source competition.

I agree that it's for the good. What's going to happen is that the 
emphasis of companies will shift to services and leveraging of that 
software base, and that just might leave a few old-line companies in the 
bread line.

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