I believe that Linux and OpenSource overall has more continuity than
proprietary software. Companies come and die, but source kept in the
worldwide CVS tree of Linux and GPL projects remain open forever. So
far, Linux is the largest collaborative effort human civilization has
ever seen.
Typically innovation starts in the OpenSource, not at a proprietary
organization (ever seen a poor programmer trying to be smart under his
boss? with tight deadlines of crappy management induced projects like
supporting dying Windows OS? :-). The next lifecycle is when a
proprietary organization picks up a bright idea and invests into it,
advertises it. Some OpenSource projects managed to become wide known
even w/o any ads: Gimp, perfect replacement for Adobe Photoshop,
MySQL: excellent free replacement to Oracle or Microsoft SQL 2000,
Blender: 3d package, Samba, great replacement for Windows filesharing,
WINS etc... to name a few. The next lifecycle starts when the company
dies. And I don't want my digital archive to be in Word documents or
Excels then :-) I want them to survive and be supported further,
without the dead company behind them.
Move on. Linux.
"Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]" <mg*******@Atrevido.net> wrote in message news:<#S*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
- Linux runs .NET :-) Reverse engineers in less than a year. That's
the power of the OpenSource!
Reverse engineers? Huh? Microsoft made it a ECMA standard so groups like
Mono had a wonderful spec to work from. Have an open source team do
something like .NET from scratch? THAT'd be something to see.
-mike
MVP