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osViews: Understanding Fear of the Gnu
Jun 10, 2004, 03 :15 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6248 reads)

(Other stories by Wesley Parish)

"'Open source software is a serious threat to all that is good and true and right in this country.' Not surprising and easily dismissed as anti-GNU (GNU's not Unix) rhetoric from a company that is running scared, but the issues are much older, wobblier and more complex than 'Windows good, Linux bad.'

"The threat to innovation must be seriously considered. If GNU-ware can be used effectively in place of applications that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, how can serious software companies hope to compete? Huge financial and intellectual resources are being drawn away from industry by open source freeware..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
The threat to innovation must be serious ...   Innovation isn't at risk...   
Toby Haynes
Jun 10, 2004, 14:09:41
 
Here an Information Systems manager, ass ...   Backdoors   
horne
Jun 10, 2004, 16:32:03
 
Huge financial and intellectual resource ...   There's another way of looking at it   
Charles Hixson
Jun 10, 2004, 16:50:50
 
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