Good Morning Silicon Valley: An Interview with Linus Torvalds

“Open source programs have clearly made some great
advances in the past few years. We’ve seen it with Linux and
Mozilla. What sort of future do you foresee for open source? What
do you foresee happening to software vendors tied to proprietary
software models?

“The power of open source really lies in various groups
improving and building on an increasingly bigger existing base and
slowly turning that base into commodity. One of the keywords here
is ‘slowly’–it’s by its very nature pretty evolutionary, i.e. it
takes time. It’s, in my opinion, also pretty unstoppable, but the
process definitely makes it possible for proprietary vendors to
generally take advantage of the open source commodity base, and
continue to be proprietary ‘on top’ of that base…”

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