[General] Open Source maturity

[bashar abdullah]

Yeah, read this book last year I think. Pretty funny and enjoyable :P. This
guy is the luckiest bastard alive I guess!

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Talal!
>
> I have just finished reading the book: Just for Fun: The Story of an
> Accidental Revolutionary
> Link:
> http://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutionary/dp/0066620732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246085493&sr=8-1
>
> The book is by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond and it tells you how
> Linux started, how Open Source started, its meaning, goals and some
> points of Open Source vs. Copyright/Closed Source approaches.
>
> The book is FUN, as it says, and funny at times. I finished it in less
> than a week with a few hours of reading a day. It's not like you can
> drop the book once starting, but sometimes you're compelled :p
>
> Microsoft has been doing open source projects (on a very light side)
> for quite some time, but their projects are negligible, they use their
> own license, and their own portal, instead of using an existing Open
> Source license and SourceForge.net. (Reminds you of OOXML, no? ;p)
>
> As long as Microsoft's management is the same old blood, nothing will
> change. Will keep releasing alpha binaries as initial releases,
> release new OS versions where they should be service packs, frustrate
> users with ever changing User Interface (UI) and Steve Ballmer will
> keep throwing chairs...
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Talal Al Awadhi<talal at alawadhi.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been thinking in the past 2 days, 4 hours in a day minimum, about
> > Open Source as a term.
> >
> > So, I decided to google Open Source 30 minutes back, I wanted to read
> more
> > about how it started. And how this "Concept" has grown lately solidly &
> > successfully, but slowly, which also made the growth solid on a concrete
> > foundation.
> >
> > Some has started commercializing the Open Source driven products in
> > different techniques (Red Hat, MySQL, Scalix, vBulletin, SugarCRM), and
> some
> > started converting closed source projects to Open Source (Symbian by
> NOKIA).
> >
> > Figures, either by adoption, or financial results proves the success that
> > Open Source is giving looks amazing. Looking at the android pre-release
> > acceptance for this mobile OS, driven by the Open Source Phenomena,
> proves
> > that the wave of Open Source is coming no matter what happens or other
> huge
> > players act or improve in their closed source projects and softwares.
> >
> > I expect personally, that Microsoft gets into the wave very soon (Forced
> for
> > sure to keep its leading position in the software market) either wise it
> > will lose its leading position to other software vendors who can
> understand
> > & develop an innovative way of producing a competing money making
> softwares
> > for public under the Open Source umbrella.
> >
> > Coming back to the beginning, I believe that till today, you can't relay
> on
> > a book to get accurate information or a right understanding on what Open
> > Source is, how it started, and how to commercialize Open Source in an
> > ethical way, or lets say "The right way of doing it", or the right way to
> > explain it to people who doesn't understand Open Source. Below some
> examples
> > on books on Open Source:
> > Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel
> > The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber
> > The Open Source Alternative by Heather J. Meeker
> > Open Sources 2.0 by Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, and Danese Cooper
> >
> > I highly believe that many conflicting information are there in these
> books,
> > even though they share and support Open Source. But I was not able to get
> a
> > concrete information about it. And thats healthy and normal, its just a
> new
> > thing growing world wide, and these great people are trying to document
> what
> > ever they know about it.
> >
> > Here is an attached PowerPoint slides (and a PDF copy of it for Linux
> people
> > here), that summarize Open Source and how it started.
> >
> > I would appreciate to see some corrections on what is written there, to
> help
> > me and anyone Interested on understanding Open Source history, to be able
> to
> > forecast how fast it can go forward, and to help also in convincing more
> > people by explaining it in a right way as open source deserves to be
> > explained.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Talal AlAwadhi
> >
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>
>
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>       Majed B.
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