On 12/04/99 08:36PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > What do you mean? > > What do you find hard to imagine? That Linux will be forked into several > competing proprietary incarnations, much as Unix has? What were the job > prospects last year for a c/c++ programmer who insisted on working on > GNU/Linux-based projects? This year? Next year? How much investment capital > flowed into Linux-related enterprises last year? This year? Next year? >
Doesn't the word proprietary go against everything the open source movement sought to change? I mean, say a company, MacroShaft, takes the linux kernel and just the kernel and then writes all its own supporting software. They call it MacroShaft Linux and distribute it. Sure its 99.99% proprietary, and that portion will never see the kind of improvment that its open source equivalents experience. Consumers will realize that Macroshaft Linux reminds them of some other historic OS--crappy support and it's buggy. I don't think that the proprietary incarnations can survive. I mean, they have to pay those developers somehow. I don't know. I may have missed the boat completely here. In that case, toss me a life preserver :) > C'mon Mark! Connect the dots! <g> > I never was very good at those :) > Money changes people. And money talks and bs walks. That's all I'm saying. > You paint a dismal picture. I just hope that the powers that be (Stallman, Torvalds, Raymond, etc.) remain committed to their beliefs. -- -------------------------------------------- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( --------------------------------------------
