Tim O'Reilley: "one of the motivations to share -- the necessity of giving a copy of your source code (...) -- is truly gone"

posted by  techgeek (12)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Tim O'Reilley comes back to some interesting facts about Open Source software, software distribution and Web 2.0 considerations.

He's saying: "one of the motivations to share -- the necessity of giving a copy of the source in order to let someone run your program -- is truly gone. Not only is it no longer required, in the case of the largest applications, it's no longer possible."

He also presents three new ways to "Open Source" softwa