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Opinions & Feedback
on Free & Open Source Software
What Do Ordinary & Not-so-ordinary Folks Feel about
Free & Open Source Software – Opinions from Here & Far
- The Cost of Free Software – from Digital Trends
- Whatdya Mean, Free Software? – from The
Register, UK, Nov 2004
- Fundamental
issues with open source software development by Michelle Levesque @
First Monday
- There Is No Open Source Community - by John Mark Walker.
Conventional wisdom says that powerful individuals drive open source by
working against the grain to institute a methodology of sharing that
would balance the power between software vendors and users. While this
makes for an entertaining narrative, there is quantitative evidence to
the contrary. The reality is that placing too much emphasis on
individual players in the open source movement ignores overarching
economic trends that drove open source development and adoption, says
this opinion article from ON
Lamp
- Microsoft exec: Open source model endangers software
economy - Distinguished Engineer Jim Gray doubts American companies can
compete on service if products are free – Info
World, Mar 2004
- Insecurity in Open Source - What open-source developers
can learn about security and quality from—gasp—makers of proprietary
software, By Ben Chelf, Business
Week, Oct 2006
- What Business Can Learn from Open Source – Paul Graham, Aug
2005
- Open Source Smack-Down - Daniel Lyons @ Forbes,
June 2005 - This is what open source software is all about: creating
knockoffs and giving them away, destroying the value of whatever the
other guy is selling. What's new is that now open-source companies are
turning on each other, says this interesting article
- Has Open Source Become a Marketing Slogan? – Asks Daniel
Lyons @ Forbes - This is the latest twist in the evolution of the free
and open source (FOSS) movement. What began as a revolution has now
become just another marketing slogan. Startups are latching onto the
hype around “open source” to gain interest from venture capitalists and
earn street credibility with the FOSS community, but then proceed with a
business model predicated on making money by selling closed source code,
he says in this Aug
2005 article in Forbes
- Ken’s Musings about
Free Software & Open Source
- Softpanorama:
(slightly skeptical) - Open Source Software Educational Society
- Inside
the mind of the enemy: the community - By Patrick McFarland; "A
few years back, Eric S. Raymond (or, as everyone else calls him, ESR),
wrote a lengthy paper about this community. Entitled The Cathedral and
the Bazaar, he wrote about how the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
community does what it wants when it wants to...I don't think he was entirely
wrong; I just don't think he was entirely right, either", starts
this article. Read on, and don't forget to read the comments!
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