On 09/08/2009, at 4:50 AM, Elias Bizannes wrote:
>
> Agree on open API's, but that's *way* different from open source. The
> only link is that "open" API's are the new version of open source.
>
> My view (and Chris Saad's whom I'm catching up with now): With cloud
> computing, open source is no longer relevant; but open access to data
> is where it matters.
IMO That's way way off base. I'm not sure why people get so confused
between SAAS and open source. If you had a continuum between customer
locking and audibility for security it would look something like this.
Lockin
Not
lockedin
+
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
SAAS Vendor Vendor OS Vendor OS
Community OS
Closed (with open standards)
That's pretty rough but you get the idea. SAAS is almost opposite in
nature to OSS regardless of how free it is or how much OSS is used to
build it, or even how much the developers contribute to OSS (unless
they OSS their SAAS solution of course). Wave is open source (partly)
but gmail isn't. but at the moment wave is vendor open source. no
direct community contributions.
but this paper is about innovation and stimulating the economy. As
much as I'd like to see the government not get lockedin, that isn't
really the point.
You also mention that OSS is communisation. I completely agree with
this but don't discount OSS as a source of innovation. Smart people
working in a competitive atmosphere is what generates innovation I
think and a community OS software project is exactly this. Many many
ideas get tried and fail with the building of OS products. Ideas are
chosen on their merits. Many innovative features have developed from
OS software. Firefox was innovative in its day. Community OSS CMS's
like Plone and Drupal continue to push the envelope of features in
that space. Apache, nginx... the list goes on.
One thing not mentioned is job creation. OSS creates a services
industry made of smaller companies. It's even cheaper to be an
entrepreneur to enter with OSS and the innovation is in adding value
to the offering (as someone already mentioned). Not everything is
about creating large companies that IPO as most analysts would have us
believe.
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