[Gllug] This is worth listening to

[Mark Williams]

> The BBC's take on Open Source in business:
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml
> 
> It's factually fairly accurate, and may make the regular listeners
> to the programme sit up and take notice.

Overall, it was very good.

There was a bit of confusion between free software and open source
software, e.g. `work on an open source operating system called
``Linux'' was started in 1992 by Linus Torvalds' (if memory serves;
I'm not paraphrasing much).

There was also a tendency to conflate open source and `Web 2.0', where
it would have been of benefit to explore the mutual independence of
these two concepts.  Listeners might like to compare and contrast the
programme's take on `Web 2.0' with their take on the `Dot Com' boom
about ten years ago.  Disturbingly similar, IMO.

I wasn't particularly convinced about the view that adoption of FOSS
is greater in the USA than the UK, either, unless they were referring
specifically to the mindset of established software houses.

-- 
Mark
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