Where can I find a Web site criticizing open-source and Linux?
Hi, I am in a minority of Net users who is against open-source software On msg. boards, it seems that any criticism of Linux or OSS is "trolling" or "FUD." I just feel that OSS made it harder for smaller biz. to develop software. Also, it is very easy to compare OSS to slave labor, since while major transnational corporations like IBM pay their employees to work on open-source projects, professors and individuals think they are supporting "freedom" or "charity." While the recent redefining of copyrights and patents as a property right may be wrong, abolishing it entirely is just too extreme. Often, people will defend OSS due to this, or support the slave labor as "choice."
But what bothers me the most is that every time I do a search on "anti-open source" or "against open-source", I get "anti-OSS attitudes" or "anti-OSS lawsuits." Also, I find it strange that "open source" encyclopedias ripe with politics and errors are first in the results. Why are both search engines so biased?
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Why not set up a blog about this, or a BBS of your own? You clearly feel strongly about it, so go ahead and create a space for those complaints.
There is plenty out there. But the odds are that you are going to run into many who don’t agree with you, because the idea of software was intended to help productivity, but some companies extort massive expenses upon other businesses that could use such a program. In many ways, the Open Source communities put monopolizing companies in their place.
By the way, not all "corporations" are against Open Source. Take for instance the Sun Java company. They offer great OS called Solaris for very affordable prices! And, you don’t get taken to the cleaners for tech support. They also sell preinstalled OS and other programs on high quality machines!
Open Source does create challenges for the profiting companies, but does force the company to provide more than just "software". Microsoft has done very well with both Sun and Open Source being available, and it’s because they pushed the customer service and built in features that are indispensable. In other words, they learned to grow and become very flexible. In fact, they learned to support the Open Source groups with the end result being great collaborations on ideas and end user product.
I don’t know if I would call openSolaris "great"
There were these guys who were going to set up a website criticizing open source. So they priced the cost of buying the operating system, compiler tools, web server, and database engine. And that was far as that idea got.