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To: Regis McConnell who wrote (17642)	12/21/1999 11:20:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42804

Thanks, Regis That interview was very interesting - my kind of item. I liked this part about open systems: "Wired: Do you think making code open, or even free, is the way to shift allegiances in your favor? Bill Joy: The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way. With Netscape and Linux we've seen this phenomenon become even bigger. However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there. Netscape says customers fix the bugs faster than it can." Think about those bolded parts. Can you imagine how attractive products like Red-C and Linux Router will be to people working where innovation is an ASSET and a competitive advantage? Those products provide them the "means to do it". I just cannot imagine these products failing to be fully successful if they are getting this message across to customers.