19 Jun
2019
19 Jun
'19
8:01 a.m.
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.