Finding the Open Source Tipping Point
When open source developers gather on a panel to discuss whether "all software will go open source," you can expect the sentiment to tip that way, only with lots of arguments.
A larger question under scrutiny at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, CA was whether it might someday become the dominant paradigm for software development.
"There is no technical argument for keeping code closed. It will never deteriorate being open," said Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL. "Companies have to choose how to make money and today that includes choosing proprietary elements. Maybe five or ten years from now we'll figure out how to make money and [still] keep all the lines of code open."
Even this panel agreed that, while they don't see open source as ready to take over the software industry, its growth will continue and buttress the success of commercial software.
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