Comment Last ditch effort for companies going south (Score 4, Interesting) 132
The one quote that really bugged me is the following one from Ousterhout:
> The third thing that has negatively impressed me is
> that open source is often used as a desperate last-ditch
> effort for loser software. If a product is doing poorly
> in the marketplace, sometimes companies release it as
> open source, hoping that will somehow magically revive
> it and make it widely used. This almost never works.
Does this guy not realize that Firefox was born from Netscape going south? I'm sure there are other examples out there, but how obvious does one need to be?
> The third thing that has negatively impressed me is
> that open source is often used as a desperate last-ditch
> effort for loser software. If a product is doing poorly
> in the marketplace, sometimes companies release it as
> open source, hoping that will somehow magically revive
> it and make it widely used. This almost never works.
Does this guy not realize that Firefox was born from Netscape going south? I'm sure there are other examples out there, but how obvious does one need to be?
