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Open Source: plus que des peanuts

IN THE TRENCHES
What's Next for Linux and Open Source? 
by Tim O'Reilly 

At a summit of open source leaders convened at the O'Reilly Open 
Source Convention in July, I asked everyone what they thought was the most 
significant work of open source development in the past year. None of them 
came up with the answer I was looking for, yet all of them agreed once I 
proposed it: The work of James Kent, who wrote the gene assembler that 
allowed the Human Genome Project to finish its work three days before the 
private effort by Celera Genomics -- thus ensuring the gene sequence 
remains in the public domain. Kent wrote the 10,000 line program in a 
month, "because of his concern that the genome would be locked up by 
commercial patents if an assembled sequence was not made publicly available 
for all scientists to work on." (The New York Times, February 13, 2001, 
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/13/health/13HERO.html).

L'Open Source est un enjeu politique global.

GP