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the ability of open source to create large and lucrative markets coherent enough to attract commercial developers in the consumer markets is yet to be proven
by halo 18y ago
the ability of open source to create large and lucrative markets coherent enough to attract
commercial developers in the consumer markets is yet to be proven.
What about the web?
- jws 18y agoYou mean the one that grew into a large commercial market dominated by the proprietary Internet Explorer, Netscape Browser, and Netscape Server? [Netscape server was never a huge percentage of the servers, but it was the server of choice for companies during the period when the web turned from computer oddity to "thing real people use". The netscape browser only became open source in their death spirals.]