The Old World of Software vs the New (Hegel lives)
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| The future is open. Not because some Geist wills it, but because
| customers will it, and because we can make it happen. Open source
| does not require a vow of poverty. Nor, however, does it, like
| proprietary software, require customers to enter into indentured
| servitude contracts with vendors to get their IT (and why? Simply
| because the Old World could think of no better way to get people
| to pay for things than by locking them up, both customer and software).
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| To be an effective part of that future, one must burn the boats
| to the past. We have to do open source, not just think happy
| thoughts about it. That's William James.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/12/the_old_world_o.html
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