Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265263AbTFWMKT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:10:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265383AbTFWMKT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:10:19 -0400 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:48376 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265263AbTFWMKQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:10:16 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: Paul Jakma , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:23:49 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , Werner Almesberger , , References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03062307234901.31982@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1599 Lines: 34 On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:46, Paul Jakma wrote: [snip] > Perhaps, if you consider that innovation is a building process, not a > 'think of something completely new' process we could restate that as: > > Creating new software: $$$$$$$$$$ > Building upon existing software: $ > > And possibly we might consider that the reason why 'creating new > software' is so high is precisely because it refuses to acknowledge > how innovation actually has worked throughout the ages, that its a > process of building new ideas on old, refining what exists to make it > better. That so much software is closed source and hence impossible > to build on adds greatly to the cost and stifles innovation even > further. welll... really it does understand that. Which is why propriatary systems try to own the entire heirarchy... The cost history of propriatary software shown above is the SUM of the entire evolution cost.. and the company wants to say "... mine, mine, you can't have it (unless you give me more money for every time you do use it...)". Which would explain the high cost of creating "new" propriatary software. > So perhaps its actually commercial software (in the sense that > commercial software is nearly always closed source) which is causing > 'cost of innovation' problems in the software industry, not open > source software. > > regards, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/