Yes, software companies are being forced to listen. They will die if they don't, bluntly.
Yada, yada, yada. I've been hearing these stories how good open source software is and that closed software companies will die for many years. And then they point to the open source successes: Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl.

But they are the same successes people mentioned in the (late) 1990s. Then people were predicting the "death of closed source companies" as well.

Guess what? It hasn't happened. Open source is (unfortunally) still a small market. There are no large software companies whose business model is creating open source software (MySQL is probably the largest, with just a few hundred employees).

Call me when there are signs that Microsoft, Oracle, SAP or General Electric show some symptoms of dying.

In reply to Re^6: Are Perl programmers just easier to deal with? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Are Perl programmers just easier to deal with? by CloneArmyCommander

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