On 10/2/19 11:58 AM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
Jon - that's how I looked at it. But then I leave my company with a custom application when I retire.
With open source, is that the way of the future?
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I am sure that open source is the "way of the future". In my opinion,
it's inevitable. "Proprietary code", copyrights, patents, these are all
today getting so cumbersome and unwieldy and such a burden on the body
politic that at some point it's got to break. All the biggest tech
companies have thousands of "defensive" patents (or code copyright) that
are of dubious uniqueness, plus they do all kinds of patent agreements
among the companies where they agree to cross-license and they avoid
royalties.
And that business in the U. S. Constitution about encouraging authors?
The vast majority of the creators do not hold the patents, their
employers do, and the creators can't even use it elsewhere. The economy
is burdened with all that.
And look at this, open source is invading everywhere!
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