In the article by the "techie" I found it pretty disturbing the number of times he refered to that the people writing OpenSource software had to be working for someone. Someone is paying then to write this software.
This seems to underly a lot of what comes out of Microsoft. You buy a product that provides a solution.
The Open Source movement isn't about providing products it is about providing tools. The value of an open source system is in the people operating it. Not the software running on it.
More importantly, if you are a software or hardware engineer, this is a really good heads up to what the important issues are in encryption, authenticity, and idendity.
In terms of mp3 encoded music this translates to $1.00 for every 30 megs of mp3s. So, by their logic, a cd of mp3s should have $22 of tax on in, and my 18.22 GB hard drives should have $607 worth of tax on them..
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In the article by the "techie" I found it pretty disturbing the number of times he refered to that the people writing OpenSource software had to be working for someone. Someone is paying then to write this software.
This seems to underly a lot of what comes out of Microsoft. You buy a product that provides a solution.
The Open Source movement isn't about providing products it is about providing tools. The value of an open source system is in the people operating it. Not the software running on it.
Eat a bunch of chocolate covered coffee beans before reading anything. That works.
More importantly, if you are a software or hardware engineer, this is a really good heads up to what the important issues are in encryption, authenticity, and idendity.
In terms of mp3 encoded music this translates to $1.00 for every 30 megs of mp3s. So, by their logic, a cd of mp3s should have $22 of tax on in, and my 18.22 GB hard drives should have $607 worth of tax on them..