[Egadss-devel] The Open Source Concept

[Tim C. <tw...@sh...>]

All,

Some of you may be still struggling with the whole idea of open source
and what the licenses mean etc.......we'll, you aren't alone.

There is an interesting article in the Financial Times:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/78d9812a-2386-11d9-aee5-00000e2511c8.html

The comments generated on LinuxToday regarding it are also interesting:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-10-23-003-26-OP-LL

(scroll down a bit for comments)


Of course both sides approach the subject with a bias. The article
authors though are approaching the situation the same way that they
would approach any other legal situation....in the context of history. 
Lawyers are mostly like that, they prefer to imitate instead of
innovate...it's safer that way.

Statements like: "Traditional companies have evolved their capital
structures for good reason."  Shows that he can't think outside the
perception box he has found himself inside.  Good thing DaVinci,
Guttenburg, Edison and Ford didn't have that problem.

Many people haven't realized that we are in the midst of a paradigm
shift.  The transformation from industrial to information ages has been
made.  During that transformation we (society) mostly applied
industrialized rules to information.  Now we are refining how
information is captured, valued and managed.  

Cheers,
Tim