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Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?
An anonymous reader writes "IBM, Sun, Novell, and Red Hat all have a very significant open source element to their businesses. In addition to these juggernauts, there is growing investment in various open source models. Will money flowing into open source destroy its roots? Mark Hinkle just posted an editorial asking the questions Is Commercialization Killing Open Source? in which he comments on 'opensville' and gives some actual investment data, and a lot of insight into the growing trend in 'open source commercialization'. Is there such a thing as 'too much money' when it comes to developing software?"
Production here at work has ground to a halt. we just bought 20 of the bar-stool racing go-karts and the programmers haven't done a thing since they started shopping at the Ferrari dealerships. If we did not get that $29Mill in venture capitol we would have been still working hard here.
But no. Now we have a 6 hour golf meeting every day for all employees, Caviar and wine spewing drinking fountains.
I heard rumors of $1000 a hour hooker fridays starting next month!
Morale is high, but productivity has dropped way down.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Yeah and these open-source roots are like movie extras; They all must die in the end.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
Sure there is, though as I write this, its utility is questionable...
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
programmers with girlfriends
Too easy, I refuse to comment.
look! it's a bird, it's a plane, it's....a girl? yes, a girl browsing Slashdot on Linux