On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:16:50PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I found this on slashdot. Very good essay based on a talk from Oscon > 2005, <URL:http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html>. > > [...] > | The most famous example is probably Steve Wozniak, who originally | wanted to build microcomputers for his then-employer, HP. And they | turned him down. On the blunderometer, this episode ranks with IBM | accepting a non-exclusive license for DOS. The guy is comparing with the view from the establed (arrived) companies. He says HP & IBM lost money by giving other companies a change. And what me worries most is that "accepting a non-exclusive license" is called a blunder > [...] > > It go far in explaining why free software work as well as it does. It does tell about Freedom without using the word Freedom. What I really mis in the essay is the price of Freedom. Cheers Geert Stappers
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