In my opinion, dili man gyud kaayo ma-feel ang large-scale benefit sa FOSS on the low-end market simply because this niche is very varied and has contradicting demands.
As for company benefits, mas ma-feel kaayo sa big companies kay mas unified ug mas defined ang ilang needs. So dali ra ma-quantify ug ma-qualify ilang target requirements which in turn pwede ma-fulfill sa FOSS. Plus considering na a lot of enterprise-class solutions are bloated cost-wise, not to mention featurewise because of the demands of the higher ups for more thorough information gathering, demographics, etc... Since FOSS is a community endeavor, most individual participants can only contribute time and effort, some contribute a little into the financial aspect of moving the projects along. If major FOSS backers like IBM, HP, Novell, Red Hat, and Google did not participate, then it will take some time to complete major FOSS projects. Plus on their part, they will benefit primarily through a faster research and development paradigm (code turnout, debugging, and resolution). Come to think of it, everything seems like the turning of the wheel. Here's a sample: AT&T, Unix (prop) --> Linux/BSD/etc.. (FOSS) --> Apple/IBM/HP/Novell/MS (they had Xenix before)/etc.. (prop) Same goes for apps. The paradigm just shifted a little bit in the big arena. Proprietary products spawned community and opensource products, then FOSS/community products provided a lot of key developments which then became very ideal and are being adapted by the proprietary products. Key example is what happened to Mac OS X. From Unix sprang BSD which gave birth to OpenBSD/FreeBSD and Darwin. Apple took Darwin and customized it, then fitted it with a top notch graphic and rendering engine called Aqua and the Quartz technology then fused it with some cool proprietary Apple applications, and then bolted it into top of the line Apple hardware. And the wheel turned. Another example on a lighter scale is what Novell is doing with its SuSE Linux product line. From Unix, then Minix, gave birth to Linux kernel, then a full Linux distro (branched through Slackware), then branched again and improved upon and became SuSE by SuSE, AG., then acquired by Novell (previous owner and current owner to some Unix IP), then improved upon and released the SuSE Linux Enterprise line and the OpenSuSE line which are also still relatively new and are continually being developed and improved upon. A mix of proprietary and open technologies. Ambot ug klaro ba akong explanation. Basta. :)) On 3/23/07, Earl Lapus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
come to think of it, i guess ang naka benefit ug ayo sa F/OSS kay ang mga dagko man nga corporations IBM, Sun, etc... and soon ang Microsoft mo apil na pud cla para "choi". wala man tingali value ang F/OSS kung wala ang mga dagko nga companies... mura ra gud ug wala'y pulos ang computer kung wala'y kuryente =)
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