The so called virtual reality Guru, Jaron Lanier, long known for his criticism of “Wisdom of Crowds” attitude of Open Source development model and the Internet Collectivism (so called Web 2.0), recently wrote an article called Long Live Closed Source Software. I call his article as “Ignorance of an Individual”. In his article, he argues [...]
Tech media doesn't get open source
July 19, 2007 By 38 Comments
The problem with the tech media (conventional media and tech blogosphere) is that they are way too deep into proprietary software and hit based economic models. This has resulted in way too many misinterpretations about open source. We saw how Nicholas Carr had completely misunderstood the functioning of open source. We also saw how Dan [...]
Order out of Chaos: Open Source isn't dying
June 22, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Today, I came across an article by Michael Hickins on eWeek with the title “Is Open Source Dying”. He seems to be perturbed at the chaos going on in the open source community about GPLv3, difficulty in implementing open standards in the govt., etc. As I told in the case of Nicholas Carr’s article, this [...]
Time to stop the abuse of the term Open Source
June 21, 2007 By 21 Comments
Image via CrunchBase I have been wanting to write about the abuse of the term Open Source. It is being abused in two different ways. In the first one, vendors release their software under a non OSI approved license and then call their software open source software. Typical example is the software SugarCRM. Finally, Michael [...]
True Nature of Open Source Debate: Open Source is not a business model, it is a platform
April 11, 2007 By 25 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Dan Farber started the debate by saying Economics don’t favor pure open source. The future is hybrids–cars, software, people, pets. It’s better for the planet… Then J.P. Rangaswami countered Dan’s argument by claiming that open source is a viable option under gift economics than scarcity based economics
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