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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER>发信人: fkbch (心魔@笨愚斋@还有三门要考:_(), 信区: Linux <BR>标 题: [article]why open source in winning --linux.com <BR>发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jun 11 08:01:18 1999) <BR> <BR>Open Source is not just winning because it is "free" in a commercial <BR>sense. <BR> <BR>The real key to the success of Open Source software, such as the Linux <BR>operating system, is the fact that nobody can control its fate except the <BR>programmers. This is very, very unlike any product in commercial history. <BR>Let's examine why this is so. <BR> <BR>Look at the example of an actor in a movie. He (or she) can control what <BR>happens on the stage, but once the film is cut, it is out of his/her <BR>hands. The control of distribution, marketing, and cash flow is now in <BR>the hands of managers, money men, spin doctors, and various other "suits" <BR>who have nothing to do with producing the real product, the act of <BR>acting. If a studio head decides to can the film and fire the whole crew, <BR>the actor (with the occasional exception of a "big name" star with <BR> <BR>a lot of pull) generally cannot do anything about it. Their hard work and <BR>precise crafting of an alternative, heroic personality is doomed to the <BR>discard bin by an act of managerial dictatorship. The suits rule. <BR> <BR>A similar condition rules in the case of most software programmers. Once <BR>Windows 3.1 was discontinued by Microsoft, it became harder and harder to <BR>find it preloaded on a PC, sold in a store, or supported by hardware <BR>makers and software developers. Did the programmers at Microsoft make <BR>that decision? No, it was a handful of fat cats in the office of CEO Bill <BR>Gates who dictated the future course of all that hard work and the long <BR>hours spent by overstressed developers in Redmond, Washington. These poor <BR>souls had no say in what happened to their work. It is as if years of <BR>labor and intellectual exertion disappeared in a puff of cigar smoke. <BR> <BR>Open Source means the power is now in the hands of the developers - ANY <BR>developers, anywhere in the world, anyone who can get a copy of the code <BR>on the Internet and who has the skill to program a good piece of code. <BR>Furthermore, the distribution of open-source products is mostly <BR>Internet-centric, meaning that there are seldom any "suits" who can <BR>dictate the end of a great product, just because of some mythical <BR>"obsolete" condition dictated by a sales curve. If there is a customer <BR>out there, he or she can get the product and use it, no matter what the <BR>big shots say. <BR> <BR>This sort of worker-centric freedom is made possible by the openness of <BR>the software codes under the Open Source regime, as well as the freedom <BR>of the Internet distribution mechanism. It means that code survives based <BR>on consumer demand, programmer affinity, and code quality, NOT on the <BR>decisions of bureaucrats. This is as close to "power to the people" as it <BR>gets in an industry that is increasingly dominated by money, monopoly, <BR>and mouthy marketing. <BR> <BR>-- <BR>------------我 爱------------ <BR>Freedom & Open Linux Network <BR>Happynies Girls Myself <BR>Recreation AI <BR> <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 bbs.net.tsinghua.edu.cn·[FROM: 162.105.11.70] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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