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To: High-Tech East who wrote (26362)	1/17/2000 9:39:00 PM
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The game, from now on, will be less about having thousands of engineers on your payroll than about harnessing the contributions of tens of thousands of volunteers through an open-source model, as Linux does. I loved the article, but the WSJ writer, like many others, gets this part utterly wrong. The Linux model doesn't scale enough. The Open Source concept is fine, but it's not fine for a business to rely on a distributed cloud of volunteers to produce needed products (or services or whatever) on a schedule that has the predictability that customers demand now and will always demand. There still is no substitute for a software company hiring the smartest software developers, and there never will be. --QS Edit: For twister's sake: the fact that W2K is 4 years late is proof that M$FT is a monopoly.