Did Open Source Kill the Dev Tools Market?
"The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools." That's the position that John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, takes in an interesting new interview. While it's true that open source development tools and environments have made big inroads in recent years, I only partially agree with De Goes.
In his recent interview, De Goes discusses his decision to make UNA Personal Edition--a collaborative development environment--free:
"So I think we've slowly come to the realization that in order to gain widespread acceptance, UNA Personal Edition has to be free—not free just for version 1.0, but free for all versions, for all time. We will never charge a penny for UNA Personal Edition. Now it can compete with all the other free stuff out there."
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Use the word "replace", not "kill".
I'm getting tired of terms like "dump", and "product x killer".