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That is an interesting approach: Excel "Community Edition" and Excel "Old Microsoft Edition", and have them compete. Also, perhaps: after 20 years, software mus
by vouaobrasil 3y ago
That is an interesting approach: Excel "Community Edition" and Excel "Old Microsoft Edition", and have them compete. Also, perhaps: after 20 years, software must be open-sourced.
- repelsteeltje 3y ago> Also, perhaps: after 20 years, software must be open-sourced. Wow! Wouldn't that be great?! Like as in an international constitutional kind of ground rule saying any software must ultimately become source-available after X years and becomes public domain after Y years. (Still plenty of wiggle room for monopolistic closed source, but at least it wouldn't be that way forever.)
- boxed 3y agoI was saying two competing closed source companies. Markets work best when they emulate nature: speciation, selection, competition. Successful companies should be split with all IP shared by the two daughter corporations.