Will open source become as bloated and decrepit as proprietary software?
Jesse Robbins over on the O'Reilly Radar offers up a sobering reminder to those of us who feel that we are disrupting the software industry for the better: we may well end up becoming that which we disrupt. This is in line with Clay Christensen's "innovator's dilemma" argument.
In other words, you are what you eat. (Or will be what you eat.)
Making this disruption thing sound even worse, Nick Carr notes just how bleak disruption can be, a la Blackberry addiction:
Enterprise 2.0, when seen through the hypnotizing screen of the BlackBerry, does not amount to the liberation of corporate systems by personal systems but rather the colonization of personal systems by corporate systems. Society becomes a social network. My pocket vibrates, therefore I am.
Is open source much different?
Also:
IT security professionals have an almost equal preference for deploying open source or commercial software, according to research by security firm Barracuda Networks.
A survey revealed that 53 per cent of security managers would deploy open source software, compared to 47 per cent who would deploy commercial software in their organisations for similar functionality.
Trust in open source software soars
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