Ex-Novell VP on SCO and open source
The usually rather tacky cnet has an excellent piece by Joe Firmage, who I've never previously heard of but is apparently an ex-VP of Novell who was involved in a key part of the whole SCO 0wns Linux debacle.
The model of open science is "communistic" in the sense of community ownership--or rather community stewardship. But innumerable highly successful organizations and institutions in America are founded upon the ideal of community stewardship--including our democracy itself.The downfall of communism was due to state control by totalitarians--an attribute embodied by today’s commercial software industry far more than by the emergent open-source science of information technology.
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