Microsoft v Open Source

28 years from now Eric Kidd till wants to be a programmer and still wants to have fun programming. Based on his experience, he is trying to predict the future by looking at three scenarios:

• The future is Microsoft Dominant
• The future is Open Source Dominant
• Small players are still making significant contributions

Eric prefers a future where Open Source rules the roost, but I believe that we might not be seeing anything significantly different in the future. Microsoft may or may not be there, but there might be one or more big players. The open source community would have morphed into something else and small players would still be making significant contributions...

Posted by Navneet at June 26, 2003 03:07 PM | TrackBack | Comments disabled due to spam