Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Sep 2006 20:58 UTC
RISC OS cannot be saved by simply open sourcing it, said RISCOS Ltd boss Paul Middleton. He added that Castle's wish to open source RISC OS "would have no effect on RISCOS Ltd's products". Paul told subscribers over the weekend: "Making RISC OS open source, or free as some people want, is not the panacea for suddenly taking RISC OS forward. No operating system can be developed solely for free."
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2005-07-25
He took care of Linux's case. Linux's continuing success is largely due to the contributions made by corporations who have adopted Linux as an OS and now pay people to cut code for it. Like he pointed out, these companies can do this because they're funding it with separate revenue streams - IBM, for example, ships Linux with its hardware, and the money they spend on Linux development is figured into the hardware pricing. This made great sense for them because they were already paying to develop an entire OS (AIX) and then shipping it with their hardware - by moving to GNU/Linux, they reduced the cost of doing that because they are no longer trying to maintain a Unix all by themselves.
RISCOS Ltd doesn't sell any hardware that I know of, so they really can't do the same thing.