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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NetFlyer who wrote (32750)	11/7/1999 8:31:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

NetFlyer: Most of Linux (Unix) has been in the public domain for decades. JFD

To: NetFlyer who wrote (32750)	11/7/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: Niels Larsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Testing, documentation and support will (without software patents) remain a viable business. If commonly used applications were freely available with source, companies would hire programmers to modify it to perfectly fit their particular needs, which then becomes the "big industry". To be able to this is a strong business advantage. You may feel threatened by this if you are a software developer and start talking about arrogance, but not at all: it will just enable new business, ie customisation, service and support, and software advances will happen faster because one can build upon work created by others. This change will happen, but gradually. We'll see if Bill is as slow to see this as he was with the internet.