The Power of The Open Source Mindset...
>>I think the rest of your post is fanciful nonsense. It ignores the fact that the open community, netizens, etc. do not bother to consider the complex needs of large organizations that actually buy 70% of the product that MSFT, Novell and others make.>>
RudeDog:
The world is moving beyond companies and structured organizations that who need control to a SERVICE environment where communities led by empowered individuals
expand, grow and share knowledge by giving up control.
Just look at the revolution that's taken place in financial services, one of the most power/control/money dominated industries. But it's soft underbelly was SERVICE. Give customers more power, control, flexibility while lowering their costs in a continual quest to maintain and upgrade the services offered.
>>Those organizations need stable products from companies who will be around tomorrow, not free-form development from a bunch of people who may decide tomorrow that they are more interested in artificial intelligence, call someone else please.>>
How about "communities that will be around tomorrow." Individuals inside companies are caring less and less about companies/brands/ego, etc. They simply want solutions to problems and some guarantee for ongoing service.
The construct that supports companies like Microsoft and Novell - ie. organized companies - are being unbundled into many new shapes and sizes of DOT.COMs, platforms, communities, etc.
>>You seem to have just discovered the "power" of lots of people developing stuff to open standards. Congratulations but you are about 20 years behind the curve. Do you wear bell-bottoms and love beads??>>
Yes I used to wear bell bottoms as a kid growing up if that gives you any indication.
>>All of the stuff you are talking about was the power that drove Unix into the mainstream in the mid-80s, that drove the hardware and software innovation which made PCs more than toys, and that created the web in the first place. But it is exactly this "free spirit" thinking which kept Unix from being the OS of choice today.>>
Yes, the movement got hijacked by greed and the need for uniformity. And thus, Microsoft. All it takes is one developer to sell his/her soul away in a way which gave the platform the power/control it needed to poach/grab/restrict and bundle to where we are today.
>> I put a lot of time into attempting to develop common frameworks for Unix in the late 80s. In addition to the names you would think of as Unix proponents, MSFT and CPQ were very interested in that development. It was the combination of the greed of some of the traditional Unix vendors, combined with the fact that many of the best people in the Unix community all wanted to "do their own thing" and could not agree on a mechanism for any significant control, which killed Unix unification.>>
And then then along came Linux. Amazing how ONE person who "sees" a much bigger picture CAN make a difference in the world.
It's all about one's mindset: trust vs. distrust.
We all perceive and make our own realities.
Fanciful nonesense?
Peace.
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