More on Open Source & Economy
I mentioned the Library Gang podcast yesterday - and today I read this over at ZDNet:
Even if an open source enterprise should go belly-up its code should survive. That code can be enhanced, it can be forked, it can be turned into another business, perhaps with another business model, down the road.
The code will be there because those who forged both the FOSS and open source movements believed first in what they could do for code, and only second in what code could do for them.
While proprietary business models may be based on a belief in the market, and a hope it will reward them, open source is based on something deeper, a belief in people and the work good code can do when it is shared.
So true - and one of the points I always cover in my classes on open source. One of the ways that open source is more secure than proprietary software is that the code will live on long after the companies (should the companies go away).
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