Does OpenSource's last day? Blue forest http://www.lslnet.com 2000 March 30, 2000 09:18
Olaf Beckman wrote an article in Linux.com, explains why he thinks OpenSource and Linux will become a pass cloud.
These two years have since, with Linux's reputation, such as the day, the company will raise millions of dollars in the stock market with a slightly touching of Linux. Why do investors don't know where the company's profit doesn't know where to put into a banknote? Beckman believes they all expect to buy golden ticks and buy Microsoft second.
The software company has a high scary, but the product's manufacturing cost is low, the company wants to make money, not only its products should be consumed, but also have to become the domain of the market, in other words, "Go Big, or go home. But Linux has completely destroyed this formula with the GPL that is based on the foothold. Any company selling Linux Distribution wants to make money like Microsoft, become a market leader is indispensable, but under the GPL specification, no matter who can get your source code, it is your development results. , Change your name in the market to smash you more than your price. Including Red Hat, almost all Distribution manufacturers say that the service will be one of its main profit sources, whether it is a short-term or long-term perspective, this trick cannot make Red Hat into Microsoft second .
More, Beckman proposed some may happen, or events, these incidents have potential to make GPL and OpenSource slowly become history:
GPL "Disabled" TurboLinux has recently launched the enterprise version of Linux, but in their website, the source code will be available to the public after two months. If this precedent is open, maybe we have to get a certain Linux source code to wait for a hundred years (I will give it, just now), this kind of business means will make the GPL shape. The reliability of OpenSource software is in the United States, software manufacturers are legally responsible for the reliability of software, but under GPL, who is responsible for turning into a blurred zone. When a one-day user is losing to the court due to linux, it will be unclear. If the US court is therefore determined that the GPL is illegal, it is forbidden in the US native use. "Since Linux is protected by GPL itself, some vendors will come with one or two copyright software in the CD, and the copyright protection of this two copyright software Let the entire disc turn to copy anything, you can also learn that Microsoft has changed a little bit to make old procedures with new incompatibility, and users have to buy every version. Microsoft is out of horses, accusing KDE, maybe Microsoft sees new KDE2 and Windows have more similarities (or saying, there are some similarities enough) Microsoft has enough reasons to accuse the KDE team to infringe the visual design of Microsoft Windows. Although Microsoft does not see the win, but in the case of the situation of the software design of the software design, it is probably not a problem in the process of dragging the KDE in this way. In Linux.com, this Linux is open to Linux / OpenSource's future challenges, of course, will lead to a great resonance (or attack), and the incapacity of vent is, and the big monarch is also the counterattack. It's just more exciting than the original text. However, several incidents mentioned are quite worth thinking.
