Open Source kills innovation (?)
Business, Enterprise Software, Open Source, SaaS, Software March 29th, 2006
Does Open Source really kill innovation? – debates Michael at SQLFusion, quoting from the Economist, Harvard, Infoworld and others. It’s worth reading – and considering that they are the company soon launching Open Source Fusion, you can guess what Michael’s answer is.
Full post here.
Tags: Open Source, Innovation, Software, SaaS, Open Source Fusion, SQLFusion
Zoli Erdos
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No, open source DOES not kill innovation. It breeds it. The concept need not be completely new. Infact even a good extension to firefox can be innovative. Now, isn’t that due to open source??
Hi Shreyas,
Thanks. What’s wrong with the image verification though? There IS a lot of spam that I have to remove, even after spam filtering. Akismet works with WordPress, but this blog is hosted on Blogware, a different platform.
As for Open Source, I actually agree with you, and if you read Micahel’s posts, you’ll see that he does, too – it was just a provocative title line, responding to some articles.
Thanks for reading!
Open Source definitely offers unfettered innovation. Currently, open source is the only thing in the path of Microsofts browser/PC complete domination. That speak volumes about the raw power of open source.