Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do

Linux.com (which shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) has an interesting look at what going proprietary can mean for your overall effectiveness. Using Firefox extension "Interclue" as the object lesson, the piece looks at both the engineering and social difficulties surrounding the project. "Even more significantly, the efforts to commercialize only detract from the software itself. The basic idea behind Interclue would make for a handy Web utility, but seems too slight to build a business around. The effort to do so only leads to complications that do nothing to enhance the basic utility, and to pleas for donations that can only annoy. The result is that, if your position on free software doesn't lead you to avoid Interclue, the efforts to monetize it almost certainly will."

Comments

Re:Proprietary solutions

[Amazing Quantum Man]

Your Newspeak is ungood. "bad" is ungroupthink. Use "doubleplusungood".

Re:what the fuck is this?

[Cro Magnon]

Editors must be sleepwalking through the end of '08.

Only the end? :)

Re:what the fuck is this?

[sakdoctor]

Clearly the editors were all replaced by small perl scripts at the beginning of '08. Possibly earlier.

Re:what the fuck is this?

[MikeDirnt69]

Do you think humans runs the self-called corporate overlord? Silly.