On 10/2/07, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > It's like everything in history held high and sacred by closed few: > when the information propriety gate opens, the features and > information once considered "crowned jewels" by those entities become > commodity. > > To say the community doesn't have the capacity to provide and exceed > the expectation of users for a particular system means still not yet > learning the lesson of the free and open source revolution Biggies > like Microsoft thought something like a hobby system wouldn't be a > threat to their bread and butter, until as Mr. Serrano said, it's a > sudden death.
This sounds like pseudo-religious zealot-ism. If your project does NOT have a wide audience, your community will NEVER become large. So the Free/Open Source software development model fails. I don't think cluster management is a "commodity" technology. You cannot compare Microsoft (proprietary OS on commodity hardware, used by zillions of people) with some product that only runs on a few thousands or tens of thousands of boxes. But some things are really not commodity. Here's another question: How come there is no SUCCESSFUL open-source hand phone? the number of hand phones in the world far exceeds the number of PC's. But Nokia is still making a killing. How about an open-source car? I don't see any of those. I really think there are certain problem spaces that CANNOT be tackled with an open-source development methodology. Obviously "generic Operating System" is not one of them. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
