Open Source disaster

Open source is causing a rip in our economy. It destroyed Sun Microsystems. The moment things become free, they have no value. If they have no value, then there is no reason to support them. There are mature systems that are essentially free.

Over time we will lose quality from a lack of people getting paid to develop open source systems.

Open source needs to be tied to paying developers before shareholders. Just because many developers designed and built these complex systems does not mean they should not be paid for their contribution.

The lesson learned from Sun was; Don't pay for something that is free. And do not open source your private work. Here is the rub, how do you pay for development into new technology if the open source model is not available.

Larry Ellison did the right thing. He was able to communicate this to the EU is a way that they understood it. He protected our world's society. If we had lost Sun, we could have crashed.

We cannot rely on necessity and innovation, planning must be involved.

It should be understood that Sun, IBM, Cisco, AMD, Intel, Google... need to immediately expand to develop the next level system. There needs to be further development and expansion of the system. This does not mean management. It means development and protection.

Innovation centers must be funded. Management centers need to be defunded. Management has been removed by current tools. It takes a few people to manage a large network of innovators. Sales has essentially been removed by the same tools.