On Monday 07 May 2001 11:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm thinking that if the proprietary/closed-source paradigm wins out, we
> > get a world full of companies like microsoft, with few alternatives. I
> > don't like that scenario.
>
> Neither do I. But I don't see the options as strictly binary - closed
> or open. I see room for both.
>
> To me, most of the questions you just asked are non-issues - I suspect
> I don't 'hear' what you're asking.
I agree wholeheartedly that there is *room* for both, in optimal
circumstances. I have no more interest in dictating what people do with their
own code, than I want people to dictate what I do with my code. I guess what
I am trying to articulate is my own growing unease with the climate around
intellectual property in the US, and the ways that that might impact on our
ability to produce, distribute and promote open-source software, and in fact,
how that might impact the adoption of open-source software by uninformed
users. I never thought that laws like UCITA, which have very far ranging
impacts on software and intellectual property would ever fly, but it's flying
in many states.
Anyway, perhaps I'm just being paranoid.
Michelle
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