Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:55:24 +0200 |
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On Monday 28 April 2003 00:32, Larry McVoy wrote: > If that's what you heard, I didn't get across what I meant. In the > business world, it's a well established fact that you don't win by > copying the leader, the leader will always out distance you. > > My message was that instead of sitting around copying other people's > programs, it would be far more interesting if the open source community > came up with original works on their own. That's how you win. It's a > lot more work but when you win, you really win. In the copying model, > you are always playing catchup to the leader.
Yea, but what about first copying _and then_, when it works stable, improving it? In the end, we'll have the better product. > That's how you win. !
But I also don't share the opinion, that the leader will "win". Have the original Unix-developers really won? I don't think so. The real winners are todays Un*ces.
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