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Free Can Mean Big Money - The Open Source Economy
Gentu writes "People are always accusing Open Source proponents of being communists, but an editorial by the OSNews publisher, ex-Red Hat employee David Adams, takes a critical look at whether Free and Open Source Software is really anti-capitalistic or is, in fact, only a product of the free market at work. Does wide availability of high quality, low cost software harm or help the world's economy?"
That whole thing assumes communism is in any way bad... It's biased to begin with.
Quite commie!
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
Does wide availability of high quality, low cost software harm or help the world's economy?
High quality? Have you looked on Freshmeat lately?
You could make confusing software and then charge people to help them understand it...
Yeah, sure, capitalists don't point AKs to anybody's head.
They use UZIs.
Dragnetting /. for ideological enemies is one of the more pathetic human undertakings.
Besides posting as AC, that is.
and you can get started in your basement on a shoestring using opensource software
So Linux runs on shoestrings now?
It was a really good paper.
Are lawyers doing pro bono work destroying the market for lawyers? Are doctors who work in a clinic as volunteers destroying the demand for medical services? Are all the people out there who write articles or novels and give them away for free "destroying" the market for books?
./ and I don't have any girlfriend...
And my girlfriend having sex with me is unfairly competing with prostitutes, destroying their sex matket.
Wait a minute, I read
Well then, you better start saving your pennies for that prostitute!