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Eric Raymond: Why Open Source will Rule

Posted by michael on from the one-pundit-to-rule-them-all dept.

DNapalm writes "A very interesting two part interview with Raymond from ZDNet, talking about the success of open source and Linux on the desktop, among other things. Check out Part I and Part II (I liked part II)." Raymond also asserts that Microsoft could have killed Linux if only they'd started a little earlier.

3 of 404 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not in the world of science it won't by nomadic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ever wonder why the Los Alomos preprint server offers the papers in that format?

    No.

  2. Re:Has anyone figured out how to pay the coders? by raoulortega · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are supposed to make money providing "service"-- meaning, make sure the code is just crappy enough that most users have to keep paying you for what is supposedly "free." This is the flaw with Open Source-- there's a perverse incentive against writing code which so good that the user can actually use it by themself.

  3. Re:Let me guess how its done.... by sulli · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Almost as bad as the motherfuckers who are spamming trolltalk and making it fucking useless for fucks like us who have fucking shit we need to get done. (Not quite as bad since I use NS4.7.)

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    sulli
    RTFJ.