Re: Linux Today Article

(And other ".NET is the death knell for Open Source" articles...) I guess I am just missing something, but how can ANYTHING kill Open Source in general, or PHP in specific? There is no way that .NET is going to be a "silver bullet" solution that solves every possible problem in the most efficent, intelligent, reusable, <buzzword buzzword buzzword>. Even if it were, SO WHAT? Linux more or less popularized the Open Source movement, but the movement itself is OLD. It's an idea, not a list of products or companies. If RedHat, Zend, VA, Andover, and all the others were to disappear tomorrow, who here would toss their hands up in the air, and roll over whimpering? Not I. And I doubt any of you would, either. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here to begin with...you'd be off writing VB Applications, selling your soul to corporate America. Open Source isn't going anywhere. I don't care if it ever takes over the world, becuase I know that, in the WORST CASE, I will be the LAST Open Source developer in the face of the whole earth. In such a case, I *STILL* have the source code to ALL of my tools (via Debian Source CD's, etc.) All of you could disappear forever tomorrow, and it might slow things down quite a bit, but it's NOT GOING TO DIE. The cat is already out of the bag. People already see that in some cases, opening the code *IS* the right thing to do. Personally, I would argue that it is the right thing in *ALL* cases, but that's an issue for another time...like the Founding Fathers of the United States, I don't agree with the concept of "Intellectual Property", and that's all I will say on it for now. :) Am I missing something? Why should we care what .NET can do, other than to use it the way ALL other languages should be used: learn from their mistakes, steal all their really useful ideas, and always always always try to do it better than the other guy?