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Free Can Mean Big Money - The Open Source Economy

Posted by simoniker on from the red-or-dead dept.

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?"

5 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. Re:And this is bad why...? by ViolentGreen · · Score: 2, Funny

    That whole thing assumes communism is in any way bad... It's biased to begin with.

    Quite commie!

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    Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
  2. Confusing Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could make confusing software and then charge people to help them understand it...

  3. Re:And this is bad why...? by daem0n1x · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, sure, capitalists don't point AKs to anybody's head.
    They use UZIs.

  4. Re:Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dragnetting /. for ideological enemies is one of the more pathetic human undertakings.

    Besides posting as AC, that is.

  5. Re:And this is bad why...? by Fred+Foobar · · Score: 2, Funny

    and you can get started in your basement on a shoestring using opensource software

    So Linux runs on shoestrings now?

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