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Lotus Founder: Open Source is Route Worth Taking
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Why their is no compition in software.
"The landscape is littered with the corpses of commercial software companies that went up against Microsoft," Kapor said.
What is about to come that we still have to get through.
Kapor also warned of the growing legal threats concerning software patents and intellectual property claims. But he noted that lawsuits such as those from The SCO Group are also symptomatic of open source's success. "You know you're (really successful) when the big-time parasites show up," he said, to much applause.