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Added Bill Gates, “You need capitalism [to drive innovation.] To have [a movement]
that says innovation does not deserve an economic reward is contrary to where the
world is going. When I talk to the Chinese, they dream of starting a company. They
are not thinking, ‘I will be a barber during the day and do free software at night.’. . .
When you have a security crisis in your [software] system, you don’t want to say,
‘Where is the guy at the barbershop?’”
As wemove into this flat world, and you have this massive Web-enabled global workforce,
with all these collaborative tools,there will be no project too small for some members
of this workforce to take on, or copy, or modify-for free. Someone out there will
be trying to produce the free versions of every kind of software or drug or music.
“So how will products retain their value?” asked Mundie. “And if companies cannot
derive fair value from their products,ugg cardy, will innovation move forward in this area,
or others, at the speed that it could or should?” Can we always count on a
self-organizing open-source movement to come together to drive things forward for
free?
It seems to me that we are too early in the history of the flattening of the world
to answer these questions. But they will need answers, and not just for Microsoft.
So far-and maybe this is part of the long-term answer-Microsoft has been able to count
on the fact that the only thing more expensive than commercial software is free
software. Few big companies can simply download Linux off the Web and expect it to
work for all their tasks. A lot of design and systems engineering needs to go around
it and on top of it to tailor it to a company’s specific needs, especially for
sophisticated, large-scale,Ugg Sale, mission-critical operations. So when you add up all the
costs of adapting the Linux operating system to the needs of your company and its
specific hardware platform and applica102
tions, Microsoft argues, it can end up costing as much as or more than Windows.
The second issue Microsoft raises about this whole open-source movement has to do
with how we keep track of who owns which piece of any innovation in a flat world,
where some is generated for free and others build on it for profit. Will Chinese
programmers really respect the rules of the Free Software Foundation? Who will govern
all this?
“Once you start to socialize the global population on the idea that software or any
other innovation is supposed to be free, a lot of people will not distinguish between
free software, free pharmaceuticals, free music, or free patents on car designs,Ugg Cardy,”
argued Mundie. There is some truth to this. I work for a newspaper, that is where
my paycheck comes from. But I believe that all online newspapers should be free, and
on principle I refuse to pay for an online subscription to The Wall Street Journal.
I have not read the paper copy of The New York Times regularly for two years. I read
it only online. But what if my daughters’ generation, which is being raised to think
that newspapers are something to be accessed online for free, grows up and refuses
to pay for the paper editions? Hmmm. I loved Amazon.com until it started providing
a global platform that wasn’t selling only my new books but also used versions. And
I am still not sure how I feel about Amazon offering sections of this book to be browsed
online for free Mundie noted that a major American auto company recently discovered
that some Chinese firms were using new digital-scanning technology to scan an entire
car and churn out computer-aided design models of every part within a very short period
of time. They can then feed those designs to industrial robots and in short order
produce a perfect copy of a GM car-without having to spend any money on R & D. American
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