Shai Agassi, SAP's President of Product and Technology is either misinformed or not very coherent..
A few weeks ago, he invests in SocialText which then announces it's return to open source roots.
And now, Shai Agassi dismisses open source as non innovative and as 'socialist':
"Intellectual property IP socialism is the worst that can happen to any IP-based society," he said. "And we are an IP-based society. If there is no way to protect IP, there is no reason to invest in IP."
Well, it looks like it's so socialist that your own company invests in companies which have open source at their core. Or maybe "investment" is a socialist word.
Marc Fleury from JBoss has a good answer for those wishing to understand why Open Source is able of sustaining reasearch & development and innovation.
via Tristan
