Blindly applying proprietary metrics to open source
I am constantly amused at how people try to apply the metrics of proprietary software to open source.
This can even happen within open source companies, as when Roy Russo of JBOSS writes on his blog that open source inherently leads to monopoly.
In fact every business model leads to monopoly, or something like it. This “climax state” can be disrupted by the monopolist getting lazy, or the government stepping in, but in a win-lose world someone, in the end, wins.
C|Net’s own Matt Asay thinks this is bound to happen more quickly with open source. “What new Linux vendor (or, rather, its would-be investors) wants to compete with Red Hat?” he asks.
Xandros, for one.
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