July 20th, 2004
Open Source on the Rampage
Okay, so personally I happen to think that turning to open source software is going to end up as a colossal blunder to any of the corporate types out there that do so. (Except for IBM, of course, which isn’t making things so open source anyway.) There is nonetheless, a certain amount of admiration for how far this group of unkempt code seems to have traveled. (Except for IBM, of course, which wraps its open source code in pin-stripe packaging.) If you want to see what I mean, go read this CNN story.












