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Can free source-code stop Microsoft? (The Economist)
Here are a couple of articles from the Economist. The first
looks at RealNetworks' open source announcement. "RealNetworks'
move is another sign that the software industry is going hybrid. Mixing
elements of proprietary software, where the source-code is tightly
controlled, with open-source programs enables firms to expand a market,
harvest the ideas of others and, they hope, still make money."
On the fun side here's the theory of Tetris. Thanks to Thomas Blankenhorn (Log in to post comments)
Can free source-code stop Microsoft? (The Economist) Posted Nov 14, 2002 6:22 UTC (Thu) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526) [Link] The Tetris article doesn't fully explain the problem.This is a variation of Tetris which captures the puzzle/intellectual parts without the video game aspects. They are dealing with the situation in which you know the full sequence of what pieces will be dropped in what order. You also get to rotate and move the piece as much as you want (although they also talk about a variation in which you get a limited number of rotations/moves). The paper (preprint) is at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.CC/0210020
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