Women in Technology

I see the same things I have seen so far.

- Microsoft will die.
- Linux will win

But people have been saying this over 2-3 years now. When is this going to happen exactly? How many people really go with open source now? When I look at the sourceforge and other open source projects, the good projects seem to center on very few specific fields. You don't find too many developers that really put a lot of energy to develop real world challenging solutions out there.

The fact that Mysql has dual license means that, there will be almost always someone who doesn't want to show the code. If suddenly everybody decides to embrace Open Source, if that was really the trend, then how come Mysql plans to make money exactly? It is the same with some other companies.

Netscape embraced open source, it was closed down. Mozilla is out there, it is good, but the future is not clear, so many developers are not working on it anymore. Some of the core developers are working in other companies, they are not developing mozilla anymore.

OpenOffice is not a good software, it is somewhat good enough but office is clearly far superior to openoffice. Why would someone use openoffice if they can easily afford ms office. You clearly have a higher productivity by using ms office. Also, Sun is supporting OpenOffice now, but it is not their core business, we just don't know how long Sun will pump money to OpenOffice.

Commodozation of software assumes that there won't be much innovation anymore in software market. I disagree. There are so many more things that can be done and should be done. That means you need massive developer power, and other than Linux kernel, I haven't seen a project that can change the direction of a project in a significant way. Every project I have seen is depending on the old code, and just tries to improve upon it. When you have to start from scratch, you need funding and lots of developers. None of the open source projects seem to have that power.