I agree, whole-heartedly. Open source does not cause innovation to go to zero. In the open source model you can't just create something and then create a need with slick marketing or bundling it with your other useless software. The product actually has a purpose and is driven by people that have a vested interest in what the application does. Really, what in the past couple years has Microsoft produced, that is "innovative" and not just a sub-par application created in response to an open-source project "stealing" market share.
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I agree, whole-heartedly. Open source does not cause innovation to go to zero. In the open source model you can't just create something and then create a need with slick marketing or bundling it with your other useless software. The product actually has a purpose and is driven by people that have a vested interest in what the application does. Really, what in the past couple years has Microsoft produced, that is "innovative" and not just a sub-par application created in response to an open-source project "stealing" market share.