Lol Aki do you do this for lulz? Actually Ive always wanted to use that word somewhere, lulz. In this world, no one is preventing anyone from making a cocacola of their own. No one is preventing anyone from making their own beer, it happens alll the time. Even those guy in ocha drink more potent stuff than what EABL can ever dream of making. Now imagine if KBL patented beer. So that no one else can can make beer without getting a license from them. Or Cocacola patent their stuff so that you have to get rights from them to make soda. Or toyota patent a vehicle so that no one can make a vehicle with 4 wheels, an engine and a 4 man cabin. That is what proprietary brings to us. You say opensource guys buy proprietary all the time, I say proprietary software puts 'proprietary' in product. No other product in history has the kind of business model as proprietary software. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:15 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello @Evans. :-) Unfortunately you and me are at the opposite of the camps. Am a sword for propreitary ( self pro-claimed, no official backing, total believer that propreitary is the only solution ) and you are on the other side. :-))
Consider this, that image of the vault would probably be at every brewery and winery. I'd love to know how KBL or others protect their recipes while wine is even more complicated e.g maturity time. How does KBL rotate its core staff so no one single person knows the exact formula? Very interesting... I can aslo see those who code open source drinking, eating and buying propreitary goods all the time. Even worse would be open source going out to enjoy a good day of coding over a bottle of beer or wine they know is as propreitary as the glass they drink in.
In the followup to the posting to @Dennis, I wonder how Open Source is dealing with North Korea, Iran and others the west consider not good. Is Open Source defeating its core values of free-code to certain countries? I wonder, and some interest here too to research.
Some thots.
Rgds.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, not bad humor at all Aki. But I also hear that Coke is real poison to your body. But then they are the best when it comes to marketing. Which reminds me that its not the best product that wins, but the one thats marketed the best. Thats very true even in the Software industry! Just look around you.
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