Arguing with the Inevitable

by on November 7, 2006

This is a Red Hat marketing video, but I think it’s pretty cool:

http://www.youtube.com/v/FwYt7hobYZg

I’ve written about this in the past: in the long run, open systems tend to triumph over closed ones. I don’t think that Red Hat will necessarily be the open system that conquers the OS market. Personally, I’m rooting for the increasingly-open Mac OS X. But sooner or later, the inefficiencies of creating large software products using a centralized, Soviet development model will render that model unsustainable.

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Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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