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No Competition Between Open and Closed Source?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fight-for-the-right dept.

techie writes "MadPenguin.org is highlighting the lack of competition between open and closed source applications. The author writes, 'Is there really the level of competition in the open source world that we see in the closed source world? This is something that has been stuck in my mind lately as I have been told so many times by closed source developers that by opening the code you are creating your own competition. Today, I'm here to explore this theory and hopefully prove why it's false.'"

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  1. Re:Wow! by slashbob22 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a great article. Maybe one day someone will write a relevant one about how and why GNOME and KDE compete, for example, and why. I'll be looking forward to that one. I look forward to that one as well. Any clue as to the text editor they plan on using?
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  2. Re:What a load... by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Think MySQL. We could fork it, but why bother?

    Good point. Why would we need two shitty RDBMSes?

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  3. Re:Weird Summary, Weird Article by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's only going to get worse in the next few years, as we feel the backlash from the teenybopper IM crowd. They're going to grow up and shower us with idiocy in written (or typed) form.

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  4. Re:feature catch up by truthsearch · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're implying Microsoft didn't invent browser tabs. Or interface tabs at all for that matter. Next you'll probably be telling everyone they didn't invent the web browser!

    Man, the crazy things people post to slashdot these days...

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  5. Church of Emacs by matt+me · · Score: 4, Funny

    Talking about the Church of Emacs, Richard Stallman was asked whether it was a sin to use vi.
    No, it's a penance

  6. You forgot number 4 by ClosedSource · · Score: 2, Funny

    4. Do nothing because X feature isn't important enough to interrupt your quest for survival (this doesn't apply if you're living in your parent's basement and they handle the survival part).