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Differentation is directly related to individualism, which is attractive to people, so the technology of the future will be technology which allows people to express themselves as individuals or else more simply, technology which opens the most doors to individual choice.

The difference between open source technology and vendor technology, is that the power and control over the architecture has shifted from the hands of the vendor to the hands of the people. As we learn to see the difference and acquire more experience, who do you think is going to win? Are people created so that they can serve the goals of the businesses, or should businesses serve the goals of the people? Who's goals are more important? That is the question at the heart of open versus closed source. Is it more important that IBM defeat the SCO or vice versa for the life or death of Linux forever, or else do we simply forget about these business entities and instead take control of what is already available, a good quality free operating system that is already built for all of us. Why not take what is already there, what possible advantage would IBM or the SCO or any other business bring to the table, when it's all there already and they just want to control us ..it ...the technology.

What I'm trying to say is, the work is all done, and there is nothing that a business can add because they only want to take the control away from the users.

Listen, think about it. If everyone stopped buying Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc products... we would still have open source Linux, and it would still be just as good if not better, because there would be more open source developers.

Are you preprogrammed to serve the goals of the business to the point where you don't realize that maybe software businesses are obsolete in the computer industry because because the peoples goals are already discovered. Why not just have all free software technology and have complete control.

I think that if this were to happen than the technology would vastly improve through differentation. The world that we live in handles extreme complexity through decentralization. The objects in this world are not tied to each other, but they ballance responsibilities, and they compete most efficiently through differentation. I would like to see software acquire these characteristics, and I don't want to serve or work for any company except for the people. If I want to make money from people through software than it will only happen if people are willing to pay for it, they don't have to.