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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> RISC OS 5.12 released with price tag
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| A fortnight after announcing plans to share the RISC OS 5 source
>| code, developers Castle have slapped a 69 quid price tag on their
>| latest OS upgrade. The news has lead to some confusion over the
>| future direction of the operating system, and fuelled concern
>| that crucial components of RISC OS 5 will remain closed source
>| as chargeable updates.
> `----
>
> http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1717.html
>
> Sounds a bit like Apple's kernel and Sun's OpenSolaris. Many
> operating systems go Open Source (at least partially). Who
> will it be next? Symbian, Windows, the Unixes... Palm OS is
> already slated to be replaced by Linux... Hurd and BSD's
> are already there... DOS has leaked through Google's code
> search and FreeDOS 1.0 is ready...
>
It looks like the proprietary portions of code are becoming smaller and
smaller components of the overall systems. This is probably an
inevitable consequence of the economic environment which open-source
free-software introduces. It's not possible to compete with free
anyway, so why bother? Instead, keep a small something to yourself, and
free up the rest. That way, you get to share development costs and such
like with others, whilst making the best of your proprietary bit.
I think this increasingly fine-grained progression will continue for
many years to come.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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