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                Date: 1998-12-21
                 
                 
                Windows-Entwickler lieben Open source
                
                 
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      Die Industrie-Analysten aber ergehen sich in finsteren Warnungen. Ein 
zuviel an Demokratie könne für die Linux-Gemeinde so böse enden wie der 
peloponnesische Krieg für Athen.  
 
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Stannie Holt  
4:56 PM PT, Dec 18, 1998 More than half of Windows software developers, or 
53 percent, favor open-source code such as Linux, according to a poll of 
more than 400 Windows developers conducted earlier this month by the Evans 
Marketing Services Research Group.  
 
  Another 22 percent believe open-source code is a nice idea but would 
never be practical,  and less than five percent of the developers were 
firmly against open-source software. 
... 
  Many respondents said they favor accessing source code openly so they can 
have the  freedom to change programs and add features, the representative 
said. However, that freedom could turn out to be a curse in disguise, 
according to analyst Joshua Greenbaum, a principal at Enterprise 
Applications Consulting, in Berkeley, Calif.  
... 
  Without a central authority regulating the standard for an operating 
system or application  and documenting all features and changes, the system 
or program could split into   incompatible versions or develop problems 
that could not be diagnosed, Greenbaum said.  
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  "It's a prescription for disaster," Greenbaum added. He likened Linux to 
the free-wheeling  democracy of ancient Athens, which was smashed by the 
disciplined military might of  Sparta. 
 
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