Comments on: Open Source’s Exaggerated Demise http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/30/open-sources-exaggerated-demise/ The official AllPeers blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:47:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Concerned Citizen http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/30/open-sources-exaggerated-demise/#comment-55408 Concerned Citizen Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:25:12 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/30/open-sources-exaggerated-demise/#comment-55408 The ability to write your own extended features for existing applications or entire software packages as needed is something that will be relevant and applicable to any entity or organization as long as a need for new functionality and greater efficiency is required, which is to say forever. Open source will never die, if for no other reason than some people simply like to write code and others simply like to use code. If you look at some of the Firefox extensions that have been created, you will find some amazing usage statistics. And think of the P2P world. On the sourceforge.net statistics, the eMule download statistics are approaching 300 million. The Azures BitTorrent Client has over 140 million downloads. The huge boom that was the result of a new venue for software creation, distribution, and rollout may be slowing. But the idea that open source software is on its way out is simply wishful thinking and negative propaganda on behalf of those who became filthy rich off of closed-source, proprietary packages (Microsoft). The idea of open source is in itself philosophical in nature, much like the works of Plato, Martin Luther, or Ghandi. Even if open source were outlawed one day, people would still partake in it. The ability to write your own extended features for existing applications or entire software packages as needed is something that will be relevant and applicable to any entity or organization as long as a need for new functionality and greater efficiency is required, which is to say forever. Open source will never die, if for no other reason than some people simply like to write code and others simply like to use code. If you look at some of the Firefox extensions that have been created, you will find some amazing usage statistics. And think of the P2P world. On the sourceforge.net statistics, the eMule download statistics are approaching 300 million. The Azures BitTorrent Client has over 140 million downloads.

The huge boom that was the result of a new venue for software creation, distribution, and rollout may be slowing. But the idea that open source software is on its way out is simply wishful thinking and negative propaganda on behalf of those who became filthy rich off of closed-source, proprietary packages (Microsoft). The idea of open source is in itself philosophical in nature, much like the works of Plato, Martin Luther, or Ghandi. Even if open source were outlawed one day, people would still partake in it.

]]> By: funTomas http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/30/open-sources-exaggerated-demise/#comment-55269 funTomas Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:56:51 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/30/open-sources-exaggerated-demise/#comment-55269 Matt, I see OSS's benefit in the infrastructure such as OS and communication technologies, where the standards play more crucial role to ensure interoperability. After all, that's the way the technological evolution happens - once an edge technology becomes a commodity, an infrastructure utilised by a new edge, higher level technology. Matt, I see OSS’s benefit in the infrastructure such as OS and communication technologies, where the standards play more crucial role to ensure interoperability. After all, that’s the way the technological evolution happens - once an edge technology becomes a commodity, an infrastructure utilised by a new edge, higher level technology.

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