"Rohan Bernett" <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Big companies are getting too much power and making too much money anyway.
I
> say go ahead and make the project anyway and ignore the big companies. Why
> not do the project as open source, then they can't do anything about it.
> :-)
>
> Rohan _e_ii

Alas, I fear it is not so simple.
An open source project needs some leader(s), to coordinate effort, etc.
Even if it is perfectly distributed, the site can be closed, even the server
owners can be sued, etc.
Big companies are powerful (lot of money, lot of lawyers), and are very
aggressive when they feel their money is threatened...

Regards.

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