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Matt Asay on the Status of OSS
OSS_ilation writes "An interview with OSBC director Matt Asay at SearchOpenSource.com gives some insight into where open source software (OSS) has been, is today, and where it hopes to be in the future. A common trend identified by Asay in the interview is that OSS has become very profitable. Asay also touched on the hot-button issue of where the GPL is headed, as well as how open source vendors shouldn't let high download rates give them a big head about the real validity of their projects."
I would like it if he did an analysis of professionalism in the open source world. As open source software starts to play a greater role in business and enterprise computing, it will soon be expected that the open source developers gain a certain level of professionalism.
Indeed, many have been able to do so. They present a very respectable, reputable and trustworthy image. Yet sometimes that isn't the case. There was the recent incident of a KOffice developer publically insulting a longtime KDE and KOffice user, for instance. Such incidents make executives question the professionalism of the entire open source community, even if it is just a lone rogue developer acting unprofessionally.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.