You can’t kill an idea
The latest discussion that surrounds the question "Is the term open source dead or dying?" is interesting, but the question makes no sense to me. http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/342346.htm You might as well be asking whether the color green will become obsolete. What's often being missed in the debate, though Robert Douglass put his finger on it, is open source is an idea not a tangible thing. It exists outside of what people think of it. My iPod can die, but the music lives on. In that respect, dead or dying has no meaning in relation to open source. Once an idea hatches, it can't die.
