How to kill open source
The use of lawyers to go after open source frontally, with copyright and patents, has not worked, so many in the open source community are under the mistaken impression that the war is over and they won.
It’s not over.
There are two ways to kill open source which do work:
* Spam it to death. That’s what killed newsgroups.
* Keep it from getting raw material. That’s what is happening to Internet radio.
That’s right, either ignore the law or twist it against the Internet’s interests.
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Killing open source
Did you know that Open Source (yes, I chose to write it with capitals) can be killed? Yes, that is at least what Dana Blankenhorn from zdNet thinks.
I've written last week about my opinion on what Dana thinks. I really like to read his articles, because they get me pissed every time. But that is a good thing. It makes me think about an issue on hand, and sometimes I change my mind about them. Sometimes I don't, because I make my opinion even stronger.
So, this time Dana talks about two possible ways to "kill" open source (just like that - no mentioning whether is he talking about specific software, generally open source software or the concept):
Spam it to death. (He mentions that this is what killed newsgroups).
Keep it from getting raw material.
I personally think that both reasons are dumb. I'm not sure about the possibility of "killing" open source as whole, but this sound like a very cool journalistic trick to draw attention.
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