Open source can be very `benefit-driven'
Over the last five years, the IT community has seen a consuming increase in the usage of open-source technologies and acknowledged the role Sun Microsystems played in the process. eWorld spoke to Matt Thomson of Sun Microsystems Inc at Sun Tech Days.
In a world that is increasingly becoming `each one for himself', how do you explain the success of open source collaborations?
There are basically two sides to it. A consumer side; and a producer side. The concept here is that 99 per cent of the world would consume open-source; be it a person who downloads a program like open office or be it a developer who uses somebody else's code. The other 1 per cent are the people who actually produce open-source. And the value for open source is for both parties. From the consumer side, one can download an open-source program, use it and be totally confident that you're never going to be `locked-in'. The file formats are open; if one doesn't like the service provided by a particular company, one can go to another company and still not lose the functionality of the product. That's not the case with closed-source products where one is `locked-in' with the vendor.
From the production side, the developers who work with open-source get to build on the ideas that came before them.
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