Reconsidering Linux (News.com)

Reconsidering Linux (News.com)

Posted Jul 30, 2003 21:43 UTC (Wed) by MathFox (subscriber, #6104)
In reply to: Reconsidering Linux (News.com) by iabervon
Parent article: Reconsidering Linux (News.com)

When I was at a "Linux in business" symposium I realised that a lot of the "decision makers" still think about software in terms of suppliers and users as totally seperate entities. They are interested in becoming users of open source systems for mainly economical reasons: create a more efficient IT environment for their own organisation. They don't realise the additional benifits that open source software can provide for an organisation.
I have the impression that the software world will look significantly different in 5 years (at least in the Netherlands; the US will be slower than Europe). A significant foundation for large scale open source deployment is under construction. That could be the reason that juridical actions against Linux have been started...
Anyway I think a distribution as Debian has its place to keep the "commercial Linux" distributors honest. It remains important to keep an critical eye on them, but as long as there's a symbiosis between them and the open source movement we should respect their business

---

(Log in to post comments)