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coats writes "ESR has written
a new article,
"Open Source: Programming as if Quality Mattered"
on the Internet politics-and-policy site Intellectual Capital.
This article starts off with the Netscape OpenSource
release, describes how it fits in
with the way the Internet was built, mentions
Linux, and then goes on to wonder whether staking
the corporation on some one else's closed-source
software is not the height of irresponsibility--
Let's say you are a chief technical officer
(CTO) at a Fortune 500 company and you have just
spent millions of dollars on a strategic business
system with software you cannot see inside and
cannot modify, software that depends on a single
vendor to service. Now are those systems going
to change to serve your business plan or your
vendor's business plan?
" While it does not say anything new, it's
phrased more towards a business audience. The comment below
it also gives an interesting perspective. In a related
story, Recoil wrote
in with this interview of ESR.
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