Neither the Open Source movement nor the Free Software movement are strong enough to topple the commercial software industry. The progress on software projects developed by the community can be slow at times, and it can be difficult to keep up with commercial products. The people who work on community software must have jobs to generate income since it is difficult to profit from community software, thus they can dedicate only a limited amount of time to developing community software. Granted, some companies have employees who spend their working days developing community software, but those companies must also pay attention to their profits to stay in business. Therefore, the work done on community software by such companies is limited. Due to these limitations, community software will not replace commercial software as long as we live in a capitalistic society. Someday, I hope we all can live in ideal society, but today is not that day.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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Amen! I wish our open-source community was a lot stronger. Its too bad the corps. have such an iron grip on this.
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