1998-11-01 08:00:00+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Tim O'Reilly sends an open letter to Microsoft responding to the halloween memo:
At bottom, the Open Source movement is an expression of the Western academic tradition, innovation and discovery through the free exchange of ideas. You rig that system at your peril. You have only to look at the stagnation of Soviet science and industry under a centralized autocratic system, versus the innovation that happened in our free markets, to see what fate you have in store for yourselves if you succeed.