| Weblog: | The Open Source Paradigm Shift | |
| Subject: | the old Open Systems story | |
| Date: | 2004-06-27 15:01:39 | |
| From: | Argent | |
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What I've been saying for many years is that Open Source is important because of Open Systems. Which seems to be another spin on the same subject: it's the interfaces and protocols that are important, and to keep them open you need competition to keep a single vendor from coontrolling the interface. Open Source does that better than closed source, because Open Source software inevitably competes with itself so even the author of the system can't control it well enough to close its own interfaces... if one really tried to force people to use a closed interface against their will, the community would just fork.
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