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For The Love Of Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Meta /. Comment by Baba+Abhui · · Score: 2, Redundant

    (Blanket assertion about the inherent superiority of free/open-source software)

    [Optional rant about how author personally will stick with free/open-source software come what may]

    (Cheap, yet not undeserved shot at a large, famous software company (guess who!))

    (Angry rant about unfair biz practices of aforementioned company)

    (Random mispelling due to unusable nature of free/open-source spell checker)

    [Optional signature that you've seen before]