Thursday, February 2nd, 2006, 7:38 pm
The Waning Commercial Platform
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Season of the playful penguins from Oyonale
HE staged demise of commercial software can be attributed to a variety of factors. The major factor: Large-scale Open Source software with great involvement from talented volunteers. This brought about many wonderful products like Firefox, which managed to surpass, in terms of the quality, their commercial equivalent/s. This provided a well-founded precedence to those wishing to explore non-commercial projects.
Although the basis of these open projects was about freedom to change and extend, these were often free too. The only issue to have remains in the air is budgets and liability, particularly among wealthy organisations.
