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McVoy Strikes Back
cranos writes "Fast on the heels of his previous article claiming the kernel is at risk of Bad Things over the BitKeeper fuss, Daniel Lyons has released a new article where Larry McVoy attacks the Open Source movement as non-innovative and dependent on the kindness of corporations. The following quote says it all: 'The open source guys can scrape together enough resources to reverse engineer stuff. That's easy. It's way cheaper to reverse engineer something than to create something new. But if the world goes to 100% open source, innovation goes to zero. The open source guys hate it when I say this, but it's true.'"
Maybe RMS will give you some of his inheritance.
McVoy lives in the San Francisco Bay area. The rents there are enormous. EVERYTHING costs an insane amount there. If McVoy and his *team* weren't wrapped up in the idea of living in a swanky place like SF then they wouldn't have to spend so much damn money. Still they don't even really need it there. Lots of poor people live in the bay area but McVoy has obviously bought into the materialistic, capitalistic notion that if you're a software developer you DESERVE fast cars, nice houses, going out to expensive restaurants, etc. We have computer networks, he could live almost anywhere in the world, i.e. some place cheaper to live, and do his job just as well. McVoy is a greedy SOB!