I have to agree the world would not cease to exist at all. I love and support open source and am proud to be a part of the movement but the world would move on. The world is BETTER because of open source it certainly isn't going to cease to exist should the open source movement vanish. Same to be said about the immigrant comment. As an immigrant I can tell you someone will ALWAYS do the work (legal/illegal). The whole we'd have no one to do the dishes or to run the server argument isn't exactly a sound one. I appreciated the story but definitely could see the extremism in some of the comments. Here's to furthering the cause justly so.
You got one point here
Posted by
Atarun
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2009-07-14 01:15
Actually, that should be the NUMBER ONE argument in favor of open-source : as there are no companies and the code is freely available, if open-source dies (I cannot begin to fathom how), nothing bad happens.
The same cannot be said for proprietary code like Microsoft's.
If Microsoft bails out... there's a real nightmare setting :)
The same cannot be said for proprietary code like Microsoft's.
If Microsoft bails out... there's a real nightmare setting :)