Why the GPL is not commercially viable
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Many Slashdot posters have become irate and have even simply flat out flamed me for my views that I hold on the GPL. This just goes to show the irrationality of the Open Source community and the fact that they much rather waste their time discussing ideology than actually improving their enterprise-level platforms (not that there is such a thing, really).
After spending a long time observing Slashdot and the behavior of the typical poster, I have come to the conclusion that you, the Slashdot posters, are just as susceptable to marketing forces as your average MSN user. For example, you fiercely defend all Open Source software when someone makes an ideological attack on it, regardless of whether words would actually have any affect on the quality of your software. You've been swept up in the hype of "Open Source," and have come to the point where you forget that your software doesn't have to be endlessly "marketed" and "targeted" and have its superiority proven.
What the average Slashdot poster fails to realize is that despite all their self-proclaimed intelligence, is that Open Source projects started with the idea of solving a problem, scratching an itch, if you will, rather than competing in the global market. This is the critical mistake that will help enlightened companies such as Microsoft and AOL to compete fairly in an open market where consumers take not just the price of software, but the total cost of ownership, into account.
These are the flaws that will ultimately cause the Free Software community to self destruct, due to too much pointless evangelizing.
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After spending a long time observing Slashdot and the behavior of the typical poster, I have come to the conclusion that you, the Slashdot posters, are just as susceptable to marketing forces as your average MSN user. For example, you fiercely defend all Open Source software when someone makes an ideological attack on it, regardless of whether words would actually have any affect on the quality of your software. You've been swept up in the hype of "Open Source," and have come to the point where you forget that your software doesn't have to be endlessly "marketed" and "targeted" and have its superiority proven.
What the average Slashdot poster fails to realize is that despite all their self-proclaimed intelligence, is that Open Source projects started with the idea of solving a problem, scratching an itch, if you will, rather than competing in the global market. This is the critical mistake that will help enlightened companies such as Microsoft and AOL to compete fairly in an open market where consumers take not just the price of software, but the total cost of ownership, into account.
These are the flaws that will ultimately cause the Free Software community to self destruct, due to too much pointless evangelizing.