Impact of Industry

• What role does industry play?
• Who are the major players supporting open source and proprietary software?
• Mixing of the open and closed source - effect on industry as whole, why firms want to do it?
• Future of coexistence of Linux and Windows
• What is the history of patents/copyrights in the software industry?
• How does open source work in line (or violates) intellectual property rights?
• Who sets the policy (regulations) that manages creation of software?
• Problems of monopoly in case of closed source?