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"Charles Brabham" wrote
http://www.techcentralstation.com/012204A.html "virtually irrelevant to an investment-centered economy."-- James V. DeLong, Washington DC based Lawyer, and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property. "Linux" (the OS) is about 1% of what you get in any Linux distribution. The kernel of Microsoft Windows has evolved to the same code. That is, Windows started out as a non- threaded, non-preemptive, single user, multi-tasking OS, where today, its kernel is pretty much indistinquishable in function from 70's Unix or 90's Linux. OS is OS. As a software developer, your choice today is not about Open Source, or Market Based software, it is about earning a high salary. Think of an open-end wrench sold by Sears. Whether or not this open-end wrench is the product of Open Source forge, or a Market Based forge, is of no consequence. The person who gets the wrench (tool) is able to earn a high salary manipulating the tool for his/her customers. Take a database engine, for example: MySQL. Here we have a tool that is basically free (as is the open-end wrench), and the person who uses the tool is able to maintain a high salary. That same person could have chosen a different database engine, for example: Oracle. In that case, the high salary is dependant on a higher total cost, and customers preference. For example, it would be missing the market to deliver MySQL to a shop of Oracle developers, just as it would be missing the market to deliver a base-10 open-end wrench to a base-12 shop of mechanics. |
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