And the US government should ban all foreign made textiles and textile products (or cars or whatever) for the same reasons of developing the local industry?? Let Open Source/Free Software compete on its own merrits and it will/should prevail. Microsoft is doomed in the developing world as the cost of their software takes up a bigger and bigger piece of the total cost of a system. The developing world will either pirate or go Open Source/Free Software. The future of open source development is not in the US or Europe but in Asia, Latin America and Africa..pa
It is also worth thinking about whether Government mandated sw development on a GPL base from places like China will follow the GPL and make new code available to the whole global community. Mandating equals control and is antithetical to Openness!
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And the US government should ban all foreign made textiles and textile products (or cars or whatever) for the same reasons of developing the local industry?? Let Open Source/Free Software compete on its own merrits and it will/should prevail. Microsoft is doomed in the developing world as the cost of their software takes up a bigger and bigger piece of the total cost of a system. The developing world will either pirate or go Open Source/Free Software. The future of open source development is not in the US or Europe but in Asia, Latin America and Africa. .pa
It is also worth thinking about whether Government mandated sw development on a GPL base from places like China will follow the GPL and make new code available to the whole global community. Mandating equals control and is antithetical to Openness!