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Re: Economist: An open-source shot in the arm?
by AnonyMouse on Tuesday June 22, 2004 @ 09:58 PM

"[The first big question is] whether open-source methods can genuinely foster innovation. In software, all that has been developed [by Open Source developers] are functional equivalents of proprietary software—operating systems, databases, and so on—that are sometimes slightly better and sometimes glaringly worse than their proprietary counterparts."

It's Nice to know that the Economist is doing their Research.

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Re: Economist: An open-source shot in the arm?
by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Tuesday June 22, 2004 @ 10:40 PM

I would say that your second sentence about Open Source developers producing only functional equivalents of proprietary software is grossly in error. Much of what has become proprietary software came from software developed in a Free/Open Source way. Certainly most of the Internet/Web has never been proprietary. Many believe that large parts of Windows are taken in whole or in part from FreeBSD. -- IV

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