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Adaptations (Linux Journal)
Doc Searls
presents his view of the common threads from O'Reilly's OSCON and
the LinuxWorld Expo.
"I see two fundamental divisions. The first is between noncommercial
open-source infrastructure and commercial products and services that
rely on it. The second is between traditional open-source development
communities and the growing population of practitioners for which the
main benefit of open-source is free (as in beer) building materials,
rather than the deeper concerns (for example, freedom) of the original
development communities. These are not opposed divisions but, rather,
symbiotic roles in a maturing and proliferating marketplace in which
large new species, all dependent on open source, are coming to
dominate the commercial space."
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