[QD-Filosofia] 'Creative destruction' and the future of the software industry

http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/07/20/2053223.shtml

'Creative destruction' and the future of the software industry
Friday July 23, 2004 (07:44 AM GMT)
By: Anthony L. Awtrey, I.D.E.A.L. Technology Corporation

The way that software is being produced and acquired is changing rapidly.
The availability of high quality software, often for no licensing costs and
with very user-friendly license terms, is challenging commercial companies
producing products in the same software category. This new type of software
is called either Free Software or Open Source Software (it will be referred
to in this document as Free/Open Source Software) and is being attacked by
the incumbent software product vendors as if it were a threat to the free
market itself. The software industry is actually going through a well-known
free market process that was first identified by the famed economist Joseph
A. Schumpeter in 1942. It is called the process of creative destruction.

"The opening up of new markets and the organizational development from the
craft shop and factory to such concerns as US Steel illustrate the process
of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic
structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly
creating a new one ... [The process] must be seen in its role in the
perennial gale of creative destruction; it cannot be understood on the
hypothesis that there is a perennial lull."

Quote from "The Process of Creative Destruction" by Joseph A. Schumpeter,
1942 (...)

E nos comentários sobre o artigo, logo abaixo:

Article completely misses the point. (...) Open source means that the people
making software is unpaid, not that they are paid in another way. For most
software there exists no support or service businessmodel. Most open source
authors work for free. It's the free labour itself that makes it free for
the end user. (...) It doesn't matter if you make proprietary or open source
software: You are not going to be paid, in any way, no matter wich.

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