Tim Bray: «The real lesson: Open Source isn’t anti-business and it shouldn’t even impact your software revenue. As Eric Raymond wrote in The Magic Cauldron (this was before he cracked up): software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry.»”
Ted Leung: “I like to think of the two viewpoints this way: If you want to look at leadership as giving someone authority, then there are two kinds of authority. There’s positional authority. That’s where you give someone a title and then people follow the instructions of the person with the title. But there’s another […]
Steven Noels: “Since open source is climbing up the food chain, any company, be it open source or proprietary, should be prepared to work the weights of the RF* bench. It’s only when Real Architects and Consultants will re-emerge again that buyers will be able to acquire independent and buyer-oriented advise, which will make their […]