Yes. If anybody tries to charge monopoly rent as the economists call it they are likely to find somebody has found a way to do the same or better using Open Source. Rod On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 20:02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:25:49 +1200, Roderick Aldridge wrote:
Yes. I just hope that Open Source gets a fair share of the (financial) cake in the process.
That may or may not happen, and it may or may not matter. Open Source is already having a massively deflationary effect on the entire software industry. Instead of having to develop entire systems from scratch, being able to download a bunch of free toolkits to use as a starting point has I think made a big improvement to both productivity and costs, across a whole range of industries.
Or, to put it another way, nobody in the Open Source world is going to be as wealthy as Bill Gates. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug