/* I would like to think that this would give the NSA a real headache
* but I am not THAT native
*/
10:46:24 PM    comments ==

Craig Mundie: The Commercial Software Model. Dave talks about what he thought of the piece. Cox replies poking fun. But the thing is if you want to write code and make money open software is not the way to go.

What I don't like about the model cox is proposing is that it makes a really poor platform. Imagine that every little thing you want to add to your computer you have to get someone to write you some custom code to do. Nobody can really sell you software because everyone has different expectations of what's on a box. You end up choosing between have every version of every library, or effectively paying a consultant to install everything and anything on your box. When someone writes for you a feature, they only have to care about making it work on your one system, instead of how it would work everywhere. Nothing too complex can be built, because no one would have the money for that type of investment. This is just taking cox's model to it's end extream, but it illustrates the problems in his model.
10:04:50 PM    comments ==