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Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-19 19:04:36

When the open-source tide really turns, and the best quality source code
and technology is free, then it will be subject to theft of the sort where
it is made improperly not-free.  Then it will be the open-source community
that is trying to enforce the copyright and possibly even patent law. That
is why alterations must be careful.

This is already the situation in many parts of the world, with the
developers left little recourse.


However, the tide hasn't yet turned. But even after the tide does turn
there will still be many players who will still pursue closed-source,
patented solutions. We will still need to accomodate them for sometime
even as a minority.  So, the IETF will probably be the last organization
to be purely open-source.

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