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How Is Open Source Like The Large Hadron Collider?How Is Open Source Like The Large Hadron Collider?
Answer: you start using it, and it sucks everything else up into a black hole. If that sounds like a cheap shot, consider <a href="http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/04/02/open-source-race-to-zero-may-destroy-software-industry/id=2424/">this column</a> by Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com: "Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry." That's a scary headline if there ever was one, and I read the piece with the growing sense that I had Heard This One Before. I had, just in a different skin.<
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Answer: you start using it, and it sucks everything else up into a black hole. If that sounds like a cheap shot, consider this column by Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com: "Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry." That's a scary headline if there ever was one, and I read the piece with the growing sense that I had Heard This One Before. I had, just in a different skin.
The article revolves around the following premises, which I have quoted from him and scaled down a bit for space:
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