Bob Metcalfe Re-Evaluates Open Source

“Bob Metcalfe may not have invented the Internet, but few
people’s technical achievements have done more to make it popular
and accessible than the father of Ethernet and founder of 3Com.
Metcalfe and the open source community got a little bit sideways
with each other last century, but that appears to be all in the
past now.

“Metcalfe remembers being accused of ‘likening the open source
movement to Communism, which, as you know, failed after a 70-year
experiment in the Soviet Union. Even after I wrote I was just
kidding, the movement was relentless in its vicious
anonymous-coward Slashdot-ish counterattacks, which I found
revealing about the movement. Fortunately, I have thick
skin…”

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