Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:26:59 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quote about open source Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010202082304.04a759b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010202140505.B91552@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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What's lacking under SOME open source licensing schemes -- i.e. the GPL -- is the incentive to invest a huge portion of one's life to making a major breakthrough. Under the GPL, at least, there's no incentive for a creative person OR his or her employer to do it. (Yes, folks talk about "innovative business models," but the bottom line is that this is just talk....) So, what you get is an accretion of bits and pieces that people hack up to fix small problems. Which is fine, but doesn't lend itself to fundamental technological breakthroughs. --Brett At 07:05 AM 2/2/2001, j mckitrick wrote: >I just read this remark by BEA Systems founder and former Sun VP William >Coleman III: > >`The second problem is, and this is my most controversial remark, open >source is the end of innovation and it's the end of innovation because >open source can't happen until it's so broadly understood what's going >on that the innovation has slowed down to incrementalism.'' > >This is the first comment of this type I have ever heard. Any thoughts? > >jonathon >-- >o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o >| "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright | >o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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