Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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Open source and closed source are both capable of building the better mousetrap. When you don't allow others to see your mousetrap until they buy it, and then refuse them to show it to others, you squelch the concept of innovation.
You may have the better mousetrap, but I may have the better cheese. If we can't share ideas openly, we'll never be able to make the BEST moustrap.
The conflict between open standards and business is that business wants to make money off of the product, open standards wants to make the product available to all for free.