On Thursday 22 November 2001 02:57, John L. Forman wrote: > The following article has comments on this issue > > Is open source fading away?
Ah well, a few "open source" companies more or less, who cares ;-). If you look closer, you will find that most of the companies who went down never were promoting free software. They were using "open source" as a distinguishing property in a competitive market, but never shared the ideal as promoted by the FSF. Half hearted attempts are usually quickly identified and subsequently dumped by those committed to free software (like our project dumped Interbase after watching their "IP spectacle" for a while) Different worlds, different breed of people and ideas. I wish them well, they are still better than the secretive "closed source" guys, but still, they are not "the real thing" either. Sad that Sourceforge went down that track too, but once again: who cares. Now we have Savannah, another evolutionary step forward towards more freedom. However, the whole process might emphasize how much protection the GPL gives to the honest developer who wants to have his work published, used and improve. Horst
