More on Fear, Loathing and Open Source Dave Winer doesn't see how Craig Mundie's speech last week could be called an attack on open source. I don't see how it can be called anything else. That's arguably true from one side of the fence. But one of Mundie's main purposes surely was to strew FUD on the open-source model. In particular he compared it with the failed dot-com mania, an analogy that strikes me as facile but incorrect.
Open source is a barn-raising, a community gathering that can improve everyone's lives.
The local contractor who's driven all competition out of the market would naturally be unhappy at such an event. When you attach financial gain to every human interaction, you think like Microsoft. The most important arguments aren't about who's stealing intellectual property, or who's fudding whom, but rather about how we build common infrastructure. To join Dan's online forums, please click here . Here's what .