Open or Closed. Which is bigger?
Or, who's afraid of the big bad wolf? It is all the rage at this point in time to be talking about patents, licenses and lawsuits. People are frightened. People are angry. Everybody has an opinion including me I remembered a point that I took note of a long time ago and I think it is entirely relevent.
Everyone is used to thinking of open source as the little guy. The individual developer who sits in their stuffy little room surrounded by glowing monitors, remants of cardboard food delivery items and empty caffeine loaded beverage containers. The person who looks for the light switch when they go outside during the day.
We are also used to thinking of closed source as gigantic faceless corporations that have teams of lawyers, reams of money and offices all over the world. These are the behemoths that, if you so much as sneeze in their direction, will sacrifice several trees and spend lots of money. All this effort, just to threaten you, that if you don't pay for a license to sneeze they will squeeze you so hard a stone will have more blood.
With closed source rattling sabers and open source yelling nya, nya, nya, people are waiting for the battle of the century. It seems like a real David and Goliath story. Who is David? Who is Goliath? Who will win this epic battle?
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