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Open Source And The Obligation To Recycle
Lisa writes "Tim O'Reilly has a piece called "Open Source and the Obligation to Recycle" in his weblog, where he urges every company whose products are "obsolete" to consider making them available under an open source license, or putting them in the public domain, thereby enriching the soil of our collective commons. (Interestingly, the first posting on the weblog disagrees, saying "...Giving away the software of failed companies could turn every corporate failure into a disaster for everyone else.)""
1st posts
Most companies fail due to inept management and/or marketing. Thier products are not alway to blame...
Unless we're talking about Cuecat. :)
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
He may have left out Nautilus because it was open source from the start.
This may be useful in the broader perspective of applying OOP to real life. There are plenty of papers up on the IBM site that are worthwhile, even if searching for them could be inconvenient.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
OK...at the risk of being off topic...
This isn't on CNN or CNN.COM
Isn't on Reuters
Not on http://www.mainetoday.com/
Not on http://www.boston.com/news/maine/
Not on http://www.stephenking.com/
Not on http://www.stephenking.com/
Not on http://www.newyorktimes.com/
Thats a sick joke, if it's not a stupid prank, then where is the proof?
Why did you check Stepenking.com twice? Dumbass.
There is no need to elaborate. Just READ the F@#$% story!
I wanted to be REALLY sure, it was a typo relax news nazi.
You're new here, aren't you?
I just heard some sad news on Phil Donahue. Buddy, Bill Clinton's dog was hit by a car this morning.
Oh. Sorry. Perhaps I should have mentioned...
the site is slashdotted so I can't read the fucking story, you cocksucking little bitch!
Then perhaps you could spare us your inane commentary, you karma whore?