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Sun shines the path towards the future of Microsoft (and the industry)
Sun Microsystems Inc. increasingly looks like a prototype of what Microsoft could become, although we might say roughly the same thing for IBM except that it was in a different time and a different game.
Sun's own CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has written a blog entry in which he makes some very crucial points about the direction that software industry should be taking. Comparing it to the newspapers industry this is what he said:
Now, traditional media could certainly take another tack. They could sue the new/technology media companies, claim they're stealing readers by violating patents held by traditional media. Imagine, "We patented text in columns! Classified ads in boxes! Captions on pictures! Headlines in large type!" But they'd be suing the community - the moral equivalent of suing subscribers - stepping over the line of editor, into the role of censor. And censoring free media is a particularly awkward plea for those that believe in freedom of the press
Getting to the root of FOSS
This article describes thoughts and studies by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, who concludes that altruism may not be the primary thing that drives the production of Free Software and that it may actually be good old self interest even though exchange of values isn't always a direct one.
"In "Cooking pot markets", Ghosh made the point that these transactions need not be one-to-one. "It doesn't really matter whether you get something back specifically for what you've given as long as you think that you're getting something out of the system that's more than what you put in," he says. The 2002 study and subsequent work have showed clearly that this is how open-source developers feel about their contributions.
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