Well, what I see is the government and government contractors using open
source. I was recently reading about a private corporation that builds war
simulators. They ported a mainframe simulator to a Linux cluster and it's
much faster and more powerful. There is no place for reselling open source
programs. But open source OSes are here to stay. It's the infra-structure
that will best be made open source. I don't really care if my word processor
is open source. It would be nice, but I can't see companies spending tens of
thousands of dollars to write a shrink-wrapped products and  then give them
away. what we really need are "available source" applications. Applications
that are written and sold, but the license to recode and resell remains in
the control of the original authors. That way others could buy the software,
fix bugs, recompile, and submit those fixes to the authors (if they want
to). Of course I live in perfect world, were everyone gets along. ;')>

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip, Anil [mailto:aphili01@sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:00 PM
> To: 'kclug@kclug.org'
> Subject: will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Just a discussion ;), but have you been noticing (like I 
> have) how reluctant
> corporations are to use open source - even though they are 
> willing to buy
> any crap software at any price as long as it is "owned" by a 
> company so that
> someone is liable.
> For example at my workplace, linux is not used, not allowed. 
> In my earlier
> workplace, same story (we're talking the biggest phone 
> companies in the
> country).
> Will this sideline open source to academia and maybe kill it 
> off eventually?
> thanks,
> Anil Philip
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> disclaimer: my opinions are my own and do not reflect ....
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