Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th May 2004 02:54 UTC
Last Thursday OSNews had the opportunity to meet Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, Ximian and among other things leader of the much discussed, Mono project. Miguel is a talented and versatile developer but he is also a very intelligent businessman able to understand the industry on many different levels. Talking to Miguel guarantees that you are very quickly taken away by his enthusiasm and optimism and his thoughtful strategies and vision on how OSS will take over the world.
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It's been said that the biggest power in the US are its consumers. There was a time when companies would be made or broken by consumer uptake. Consumer-oriented groups in the 70's and 80's were the biggest forces to reckon with, and manufacturing companies would make sure to consult these institutions or suffer being snubbed to oblivion.
Of course, that power has been significantly weakened by wily attempts by the US government and large producers and manufacturing companies by either trying to make the US citizenry more passive or by effectively dividing the nation as much as possible. However, I still believe that when properly incensed, the sleeping giant consumer would raise its lethargic head.
Take, for instance, software development and support call services. It was totally unheard of before for companies to outsource en masse such jobs and services abroad, primarilly because of patriotism. Now, huge companies which are consumers for these outsourced services are continually pouring dollars outside of the US and getting their government to support it because it's economically sound to do so.
The point it, F/OSS makes sense both technically and economically. If US companies and the US government do not realize this, capitalize on it and even spearhead the future direction of F/OSS (like the NSA did with SELinux), then good riddance.