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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (19131)	5/16/1998 4:02:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Some interesting thoughts about what a post-Microsoft world might look like: feedmag.com IN THE END, THOUGH, the common thread that runs through all these software utopias is the importance of an open source framework. The history of free, collectively engineered software like Apache and Linux demonstrates that the open source model -- tapping the resources of all the world's programmers, and not just the ones on your payroll -- can provide unparalleled reliability, without sacrificing innovation. And Netscape's conversion to the open source faith -- inspired partially by Raymond's evangelism -- has given the doctrine newfound legitimacy outside the hacker community. The Internet is the Big Kahuna of networks. What might network externalities theory say about such an environment?