American - Scientist | March 30, 1973 -
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
Brian Behlendorf
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No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.
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I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.
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Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
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I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.
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In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
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