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Am I the only one who is a little tired of the term "ecosystem" in the context of technology?

• vladd 16y ago
  Portability and standards are difficult things to build, and they cost resources to develop, like anything else. Users don't understand the need for them and would happily jump in IE6, Windows, iPads or a similar 'ecosystems' until something bad happens and they see the open light (Firefox/Linux/Android). But sometimes no alternative exists (open systems are harder to monetize, and with fewer resources, they take longer to be built). So we're left with a lot of ecosystems where things just work and nothing 'bad' happened yet. It's a difficult issue and I don't see it going away by itself anytime soon.
  • Ratfish 16y ago
    Android open? Like honeycomb?
    • rbanffy 16y ago
      If Google decides, next week, they will stop releasing any of their own source code (or whatever they borrowed from more-liberal-than-GPL licenses) you can always just fork whatever they already released. You the user - even if you also wrote the original code they based their product on - have no right to demand the release of what they built. They release if they want to. Free Software is about that: it's about your freedom.