Comment success due to products (and some marketing) (Score 1) 191
ESR is listening to his own rhetoric a bit too much.
Open Source has received some media attention recently because of the _products_. Apache and Perl are too good examples of programs that have a proven track record of working; working without any hype from ESR or the OSI.
Linux is beginning to get media and corporate attention due to the markeying efforts of companies like RedHat and Caldera. Really, Intel made an investment in a company with a _product_, not a movement.
Yes, the efforts of ESR and other OSI advocates have helped to increase the mind share of open source software; but what really did the trick is a few high quality products (which just happen to have been in production long before OSI existed).
Open Source has received some media attention recently because of the _products_. Apache and Perl are too good examples of programs that have a proven track record of working; working without any hype from ESR or the OSI.
Linux is beginning to get media and corporate attention due to the markeying efforts of companies like RedHat and Caldera. Really, Intel made an investment in a company with a _product_, not a movement.
Yes, the efforts of ESR and other OSI advocates have helped to increase the mind share of open source software; but what really did the trick is a few high quality products (which just happen to have been in production long before OSI existed).
