Open source, the case of the tail wagging the dog ?
Linus and Linux free loaders desired free meals from newbies hacking codes for free.
The results were disastrous. Many man hours of RedHat and Novel were spent defending their architecture which were hacked, without knowledge of the architecture of Linux operating system(conflicts and missed bindings).
Fortunately, we have now classified Linux into tiny, midi and enterprise operating systems. Tiny being less than 100 mb. You can not do much harm to hack it Although the tendency of using gtk+ toolkits caused some problems. Midi(800 mb) is now unified in browsers and you can pick any desktop window manager. Hacking the desktops are frequent, and versions changed too often, leaving bugs as they are. Popularity suffered, and no one can use them for long. Some claimed they used one for six months. Enterprise operating systems(upto 5 gb for non-commercial ones) sold are very basic, and backward compatible. RHEL and SLES are fundamentally backward, and locked down.
So, where will Linus lead us, astride. In the mean time we have to depend on some one? Microsoft or Apple? Sun Java has hardware problem(reliability of data processed and stored), and emulation software(Java) is too slow. Unix compared with QNX is also too slow.
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Copycats stifled inventors in the Linux world ?
Inventors would start the Linux operating system from scratch, that is the architecture of memory address switching and hardware necessary to perform the duties of applications. Investors are not going to be satisfied with ascii codes for machine language. We are more interested in pixel transmission for video and audio contents of multimedia.
Copycats are less educated. And they have to study the past codes and make adjustments to add functionalities or reduce non-applicable codes by stripping them off.
Copycats waste a lot of time to study codes and how or why they are written. Linux is always behind times, because copycats are still learning. Even commercial software companies did not understand their Linux workforce is inefficient because they hired copycats.
Applications are, for many years, started from scratch. they have to invent as they go. Software is written for computers to do a certain job. Most are form filling jobs, to control quality of performance. People are not competitive if they use a canned software. You need special process in a software to be more efficient than your competitors.
So, proprietary software often give business an advantage over open sourced software, over abundantly and often conflicting bugs written by inexperienced copycats.
We need more inventors for Linux development.