For The Love Of Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday December 10, 2001 @09:25AM from the got-an-extra-two-hours-to-read dept.

Jim Madison writes: "Is the open source movement about the joy of hacking? The latest edition of FirstMonday has an interesting academic study that says "No!", it is only natural in our traditional political economy that software be developed with public funding in the safety of academia when the markets are immature. Have moved into a post-scarcity gift culture or is the report correct that open source uses and needs the subsidy of public investment to grow within traditional industrial capitalism?"

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