Re: Don't waste your time [LWN.net]

Re: Don't waste your time

Posted Jul 17, 2002 1:00 UTC (Wed) by oconnorcjo (guest, #2605)
In reply to: Re: Don't waste your time by DeletedUser2603
Parent article: The Game Theory of Open Code

Actually it is when a company is on the brink of losing thier market to the "competitor", open sourcing some products looks attractive. Look at Mozilla and Open Office as prime examples. I actually expect to see more things like this in the future when a company starts thinking "What do I have to lose?". Mozilla was created in the hopes of stopping MS from ruling the WWW and Open Office was created because Sun can't sleep at night knowing that MS can leverage thier bussiness ap. market to get into places Sun is or wants to be.

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Re: Don't waste your time

Posted Jul 17, 2002 9:39 UTC (Wed) by DeletedUser2603 ((unknown), #2603) [Link]

If you are losing the market share you will open the code - I could not agree more. This is the Netscape example. However, if you have stable market position in an oligopoly, you will not open the code without external factors changing the situation. That is pretty much the point I am trying to make .-)