Linux News: Open Source: Researcher Assesses Open-Source Keys to Success: "What leads to the success of Internet-based open-source software projects and emerging 'open-content' collaborations?
Those questions, which hold the key to a new era of sharing scientific knowledge, are being explored by Charles Schweik, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."
University has to find new answers continuously, and to reach that goal, I believe the future lays in migrating to GNU/Linux. That will make it possible to create completely new methods in most of scientific diciplines. It is obvious when one think about that today, its about 30 billion internet pages, but in just a very few years it will be perhaps 300 billion and so on. This in itself will create data, language resources, time series, information about culture that science never have seen. At the same time, the possibilities to gather and treat this information will just explode. In a few years, all the talking about migration cost to GNU/Linux, which e-mail system and so on will be out of the picture. Instead, we have to open our minds to completely new ways of performing academic research in the information age. For a rich country like Norway, the only thing that counts in research is results, not costs. Then go for Linux, and take eventually savings as a bonus.
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