Shoulders of Giants — A Paper on the Inevitability of Open Source Dominance




Abstract:
This paper posits that the open
source/free software development and distribution paradigm will
eventually become dominant. It aims to show that this will occur as an
inevitable process, slowly at first, then with almost critical-mass
motion. A number of analogies to other areas of human endeavour, such as
Science will be used to underline the power of the concepts behind open
source freeware. Also, that the open source movement shouldn't be viewed
as an attack against any single closed source vendor, but against the
inadequacies of the closed source process. And finally, the hope is for
this message to achieve some sense of resonance with enough readers, to
add just a little more momentum to the accelerating adoption of the open
source paradigm.
OBy: Con
Zymaris


Created: 1998-11-02

Modified: 2004-03-23

Version: 0.7


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