The article seems to go off on a rant about AOL with Netscape, but neglects to mention that they purchased NaviSoft and then allowed NaviServer to be revamped as an open-source package. I have been using AOLServer with Oracle for a couple of years, and am totally in love with it. If I remember right, there was a request by Philip Greenspun of MIT to AOL to release AOLServer as open source, and they said agreed to it.
Giving your product away for free makes it harder to show a profit. (doh...)
Selling your product sounds like a better business model.
Probably about 95% of the startup closed-source software vendors since the beginning of the computer age have failed miserably, and are gone from the face of the planet.
Some closed source vendors succeeded
People have to eat, sleep, breath and have shelter, they don't need to play Quake (I do.. but that's just me)
The economy won't grind to a halt regardless what happens in the software industry. It might change or the balance of profit might change, but it will not drive us back into the Dark Ages regardless of what Microsoft thinks
"Ten years from now, maybe we don't need actors like Tom Cruise anymore, because we've reached the stage where we can render them so well," Fink says.
This has to be the best thing ever to come out of the Linux community.
I read this Iron John by Robert Bly at one point. In there he makes a comment that 'American Man needs an enemy, or he isn't sure he is alive'. It appears to me, that since the Cold War, Vietnam, The Gulf War, etc. have come and gone, all there is to do is hype Microsoft into the Evil Empire, so that everyone can have a Just Cause and try and Defend The Free World.
IMO... The Cold War at least made better movies (Call me Bond... )
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The article seems to go off on a rant about AOL with Netscape, but neglects to mention that they purchased NaviSoft and then allowed NaviServer to be revamped as an open-source package. I have been using AOLServer with Oracle for a couple of years, and am totally in love with it. If I remember right, there was a request by Philip Greenspun of MIT to AOL to release AOLServer as open source, and they said agreed to it.
I dunno... Hand rollin' a Unix-like kernel doesn't sound all that 'easy' to me, or a windowing system, or an optimizing compiler, etc.
"Ten years from now, maybe we don't need actors like Tom Cruise anymore, because we've reached the stage where we can render them so well," Fink says.
This has to be the best thing ever to come out of the Linux community.
it just picks it's friends. Visual Basic causes the same problem... it brings programming the the inept.
IMO... The Cold War at least made better movies (Call me Bond... )
It would be nice to see exactly the same post with 'amiga' swapped with 'windows'... well maybe in another decade or so...