Openlag and OpenWinds, What would happen if windows becames open software?

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11 years ago

Recently I was trying to explain an idea, a model called Openlag: open and close sources companies trying to establish some form of symbiosis in which the company put the code in the open but with a certain lag (mainly time -the lag- and features), is a difficult negotiation and I found examples like FB recent machine learning platform and other examples like Revolution Analytics based on open source R.

Some discussion is in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/BPL-iRweRpk

I think a new and unexpected model is being configured and the main actor here is Microsoft. Perhaps, if this kind of model is going to be real, changing the name of Windows to OpenWinds would allow the company to flying out.

I don't have a clear proposal or model for the kind of negotiation required in an openlag company, but it seems this kind of model is going to be real soon.

Edit: Small changes in the expression, the same idea.