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| What's really behind the "Free" Software Movement |
| 11.27.04 (6:17 am) [edit] |
In 1997 I read an interview of Giant Hardware SUN's CEO in a professional resellers magazine where he unveiled the company's goal: transforming the internet industry into a monopoly like in the telecom industry and for that he said that they would create a software deflation and he predicted that big software IT like Sema Group would disappear at term because they (SUN) would furnish directly online software through their communication pipelines.
What does it mean that they would create deflation ? It means that they would dump the value of software, it will decrease more and more in the future whereas the value of hardware and communication will increase. Of course at the beginning people will profit from that. They will even believe naively in a new world of freedom where people would be free from commercial monopoly. In truth the monopoly is just switching from one hand to another: from the software to the hardware industry.
The two big companies to support this movement are Sun and IBM. Do you frankly believe that IBM also do this for your eyes only :).
At term this means that it is no good to be a software engineer above all with the offshore trend. In fact it is predicted that 10 millions jobs would be lost in IT field in US in the coming 20 years due to this: this is just logical if software decrease value it's not worth anymore to pay people to do that kind job in US because it would be too costfull.
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