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Has Open Source Jumped the Shark?
AlexGr writes to tell us that Jeff Gould has a somewhat jaded look at the commercial push of Open Source and what that may be doing to the overall Open Source movement. "I've been a Linux fan for years, but lately I wonder if the drum beating from the big IT vendors in favor of open source hasn't finally slipped over the edge from sincere enthusiasm to meaningless — or in some cases downright hypocritical — sloganeering. The example that brought this gloomy thought to mind was a recent IBM press release touting a 'new open client solution' as an 'alternative to vendor lock-in'. Wow. Imagine that. An alternative to vendor lock-in."
The author is simply trolling for page hits. I mean come on the tile gives it away... it is a purely polemical position. Of COURSE Open Source hasn't jumped the shark... please. This guys argument is that because open standards are universally considered a "good thing" the use of such terms in advertising means it not be. Talk about idiocy.
Can we mod TFA and this /. article both (-5 Stupid)??? Nothing that guy
says makes a damn bit of sense; and the idea that "open source has
jumped the shark" is about as meaningful as "Shelby serves lucid potatoes before Congress."
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