[location-iwg] Article: Open Source has won

[Andrew Ross <andrew.ross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

If you haven't seen this article, chances are, since you're here @ 
LocationTech, you may appreciate the pragmatic sentiments in the article 
and comments:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/07/open-source-won.html

Roger Magoulas:
"Open source won. It’s not that an enemy has been vanquished or that 
proprietary software is dead, there’s not much regarding adopting open 
source to argue about anymore. After more than a decade of the low-cost, 
lean startup culture successfully developing on open source tools, it’s 
clearly a legitimate, mainstream option for technology tools and 
innovation."

Tim O'Reily:
"Open platforms always create new value that is captured by people who 
close the system down in some ways. But we're all better off from the 
dance." "My own thinking about open source has always been shaped more 
by the generosity of the Berkeley/MIT/Apache/Internet approach - here's 
our work, build on it however you will - than on the hyper-controlling 
approach of the GPL. There's no question in my mind which of those 
approaches has created more value for society. The pragmatists beat the 
ideologues hands down."

Andrew