[Gllug] An article for you from an Economist.com reader.

Jack Bertram jack at jbertram.net
Fri Jun 18 12:00:14 UTC 2004


* gllug at minty.org <gllug at minty.org> [040617 12:44]:
> The model has other limitations as well. It is not clear, for example,
> that the open-source model can be genuinely innovative--most
> open-source software merely imitates existing commercial products.

Is this fair?  Weren't major open-source servers (e.g., Apache, BIND,
sendmail) around before commercial products?

j
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