Re: [OpenVerse] Aren't You glad...

[Mark Lucas <mlucas@imagelinks.com>]

>On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Mark Lucas wrote:
>> Proprietary software is dead, they just don't know it yet.
>
>Don't get ahead of yourself there. :)
>
>Proprietary software is as dead as Open Source software is in the everyday
>mainstream.

It may take the next five years, but I wouldn't invest in a proprietary
software development model at this point.  Most of the world doesn't know
what Linux is much less open source, the developers are in a position to
understand the advantages of the open source model.  Given the advantages
that we have seen switching our business to Linux and open source I find it
hard to imagine how closed software can compete in the long run.  So you
are right, it is not time to bury them yet - but maybe we can feel sorry
for them because we know they have a terminal disease.  ;-)

Lucky_to be Open Source_Luke


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