For more on the latest ranting from Darl:
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=4AF096:1F2C549

This could well be titled ``Automobiles threaten buggy whip industry''.

``The worldwide software market ... was being threatened by the ideas
behing the Free Software Foundation's GPL, the software license the
governs Linux.''

New ideas have often been the bane of established institutions, whether
it's people co-operating to produce better software in a way that won't
benefit SCO, Astronomy showing that the earth isn't the center of the
universe, or the Internet threatening the livelihood of broadcast media and
corrupt politicians (but I repeat myself). Guttenberg's printing press not
only put lots of monks out of work, but allowed the spread of many ideas
which were anathema to the religious hierarchy.

One of the primary jobs of management in any company is planning for the
future so they aren't left providing solutions for markets that no longer
exist or where their company can no longer compete. All too frequently
they go to government to try to get laws passed that will protect them from
this competition (and buy lots of politicians willing to sell their
influence).

Bill
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