internetnews.com: Kept Alive by Open Source

[ Thanks to tk421 for this link. ]

"In 1999, Eric S. Raymond published The Cathedral & the Bazaar, a seminal tome on the open source movement in which he writes: 'Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.'

"Beloved old technologies don't die. They go open source. For some reason the open source model has enabled dead and dying technologies to stay alive long after commercial interests left them to rot..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Enterprise Unix Roundup: Sun's Free Lunch(Jun 18, 2005)
• Dangers of Delay - How to prevent a Linux kernel fork through wider stakeholder participation(Nov 22, 2000)
• osOpinion: An itch that needs scratching(Aug 28, 2000)