Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:03:19AM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > > >The thing I'm curious about is, can Open Source development compete > >against the *HEAVILY* funded corporate deep wizardry? We're not talking > >about a couple of guys somewhere. The 40 year old papers he was looking > >at and the 80 years of history is funded, published, and owned largely by > >AT&T Research. > > Of course they can! Look at linux and *BSD's competing nose-to-nose with the > big corporate fleets of hackers. And holding thier own too I might add. > Granted this isn't an apples to apples comparison but it's a good example of > what the masses of "hobbyists" can accomplish. No matter what you wanna do, > there is a hacker out there who cares not about getting paid but will do it > for the challenge or for fun. OS internals is chickenfeed compared to psycho-perceptual models. Sure, somebody smarter will always come along; but not necessarily this decade. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/