[Eug-lug] Witchcraft

[Bob Miller]

No offense to any Wiccans on the list, but here's what Linus says
about proprietary software.

> Q: What makes you believe Linux will continue to gain momentum?
> 
> A: I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable
> software. It's the right way to do things. I compare it to science
> vs. witchcraft. In science, the whole system builds on people looking
> at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft,
> somebody had a small secret and guarded it -- but never allowed others
> to really understand it and build on it.
> 
> Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just
> died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious
> enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their
> secrets. You have to have everybody share in knowledge.

Read the whole interview here.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040818_1593.htm

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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