Linux is everywhere. There is no concept of proprietary software. A business organization approaches me for software development. It is willing to pay me money without bothering about whether I provide the
source
code or not . The software should work and be ready within a given
deadline.
I work my a** out and deliver the software along with source code et al
to
the client only to discover that one of competitors has laid his hands on
it
and is making money out of my ideas :( I'm doomed. Shouldn't I make my software proprietary ? The trend continues everywhere and there is a great divide : proprietary software for Linux & free software for Linux (for home?) Brrrrrr. possible?
It is M$ Win, becuase of which the personal computing has spread to millions of houses. [and u curse them for mkaing money, and call ruthless ... ..] It M$ Win was not there, then I guess computing, Internet etc. must have been a distant dreams for all of us. Can't remember which **ix company made any efforts in sprading computing
QNX the real time OS, has openly said that if we release our source code, we will loose the competitive edge we have earned.
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