10-Year Anniversary of Open Source 161
Bruce Perens writes "Saturday is the 10-Year Anniversary of Open Source, the initiative to promote Free Software to business. Obviously, it's been incredibly successful. I've submitted a State of Open Source message discussing the anniversary of Open Source, its successes, and the challenges it will face in the upcoming decade."
I'll raise a glass to that! (Score:2, Interesting)
Open Source has already changed the world... (Score:5, Interesting)
I've been using Open Source all the way since the start, heck...I've even contributed to it by writing Open Documents and Wikis to help guide the everyday user how to use the various applications.
I am proud of what we have achieved, I remember when people at work mocked us as "nerdy" or "hippie" for constantly advocating alternative solutions to software and hardware solutions, but after being known for solving issues that the commercial world just couldn't this is no longer the case.
Thanks to distributors like "Ubuntu" that puts community effort together in functional packages for the "everyday man" - Linux has become both friendly and usable for everyone, not to mention the efforts of the Wine team that has made it entirely possible to run your favorite apps. under Linux with ease and little "under-the-hood" work at all.
Fantastic efforts, and an even better future. Personally I think the future for OS have never looked this good.
Big deal (Score:5, Interesting)
What? (Score:3, Interesting)
10 years, huh? I wonder what Bruce's friends from UC Berkeley [wikipedia.org] would say. Sure seems like they had open source long before Bruce decided to get his name in the papers. Parens' and Raymond's instance on taking credit for free software is disgusting.
Not 10 years: thank ESR for the lies (Score:5, Interesting)
The inexorable progress of Free Software (Score:3, Interesting)
Remarks about Audacity and Ardour aside, it's come a hell of a long way in 10 years, when priorities were things like drivers, windowing systems and text editors.
Go Free Software!
Re:Misleading use of capital letters (Score:3, Interesting)
(paraphrasing)
Of course we had free software back in the '60s. But back then it was called "software".
My 10th Year Anniversary... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Correction: free software is the success (Score:3, Interesting)