Has Open Source Jumped the Shark? 250
AlexGr writes to tell us that Jeff Gould has a somewhat jaded look at the commercial push of Open Source and what that may be doing to the overall Open Source movement. "I've been a Linux fan for years, but lately I wonder if the drum beating from the big IT vendors in favor of open source hasn't finally slipped over the edge from sincere enthusiasm to meaningless — or in some cases downright hypocritical — sloganeering. The example that brought this gloomy thought to mind was a recent IBM press release touting a 'new open client solution' as an 'alternative to vendor lock-in'. Wow. Imagine that. An alternative to vendor lock-in."
It is possible to overuse the Cavuto (Score:3, Funny)
Takes One to Know One? (Score:5, Funny)
Nonetheless, for some of us who are old enough to have done business with IBM in the 1970s and 1980s, having them talk about avoiding "vendor lock-in" is a useful test to see if the old irony detector is still working.
Re:Umm? (Score:3, Funny)
Is that gonna be like hippie-love-fest-1.0 except with even more user interaction? If so, count me in!
Re:Jumping the Shark (Score:4, Funny)
Correct, I much prefer the Tom Cruise inspired phrase "jumped the couch."
Re:He doesn't understand Open Source at all. (Score:3, Funny)
It might have been confusing, were this a Dickies [dickies.com] message board. But the sales guy's misunderstanding of the term 'free' as it would be used at an FSF event is clearly his own fault.
Open != Open Source (Score:3, Funny)
Yet another redefiinition (Score:1, Funny)
Re:He doesn't understand Open Source at all. (Score:3, Funny)
>That's what the rest of the world thinks when they hear "free".
Really?!? So _that's_ what they mean by "the land of the free"...
Now I get it..
Re:He doesn't understand Open Source at all. (Score:2, Funny)