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In general, the effort is not wasted if competition drives the products to be better and/or cheaper in the end. Uselessly duplicated efforts due to secrecy are
by superuser2 10y ago
In general, the effort is not wasted if competition drives the products to be better and/or cheaper in the end.
Uselessly duplicated efforts due to secrecy are the problem patents were supposed to solve, btw.
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoI think open source software was much more effective in solving the problem of duplication, albeit a slightly different problem (not as effective with hardware). As an aside, does anyone building software these days not have quite a lot of FOSS in their tech stack? Imagine if we had to pay for Windows NT 2011 to run our containers. :)
- kazagistar 10y ago> Imagine if we had to pay for Windows [...] to run our containers https://aws.amazon.com/windows/resources/licensing/ https://aws.amazon.com/windows/resources/licensing/