''Can software industry survive, if people will use only Open Sources?''
This was the most burning question at Californian Software Development Conference raised by Microsoft Manager Jim Gray, who believes that future survival of software industry is hardly possible if users will be able to get all softwares free of charge.
Long since already tried Microsoft to carry to the general public dubiety of 'open source' concept, since although on one hand the idea of free sources sounds very good and generous at a first glance as it gives people a chance to get softwares for free, what means greater access to shared knowledge (which is especially important for developing countries with poorer population then for better-off industrialized countries) on the other hand at closer examination free source concept is similar to cancerous growth, as it spreads around as quickly and widely as cancer and strikes people's minds so deeply that they are not able and willing afterwards to pay for a software,which means slow and certain death for software development industry, since non of the business may survive in a long-term without generating any profits. So the dilemma we are coming up with: does software developers have to think about mankind's well-being and prosperity, or do theiy have to be concerned with their own survival in competative environment???
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