The assumption here is that the open source community works 100% on free software, which is patently not the case. Either that or they are using some serious 'slack time' in the office.
With any arrangement based on mutual support and co-operation there will always be those who take more than they give.But when those that give, want to give, and those that receive also give something back (no matter how trivial) there really are very few losers in this game.
In some ways you cou;ld argue that the open source community works along Marxist principles -
'..from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.'
But then again, I don't suppose/. isactually a hotbed of rabid leftwing conspirators.
But what if your Grandparents borrowed the money for your College education, spent it on a nice new beach house, told YOU to fuck off, and then you find the bank pulling half your pay check every month for the next 40 years?
But then again, I suppose it all depends on what you think is fair...
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Not Communists, more like Marxists
But still not enough proof that /. is really a hotbed of leftwing conspirators.
--With any arrangement based on mutual support and co-operation there will always be those who take more than they give.But when those that give, want to give, and those that receive also give something back (no matter how trivial) there really are very few losers in this game.
In some ways you cou;ld argue that the open source community works along Marxist principles -
But then again, I don't suppose
Go on, prove me wrong.
But what if your Grandparents borrowed the money for your College education, spent it on a nice new beach house, told YOU to fuck off, and then you find the bank pulling half your pay check every month for the next 40 years?
But then again, I suppose it all depends on what you think is fair...
Thank you Mr.Gates for your insightful comment and near surgical accuracy in dissecting the topic of 'Private Rocketplanes'.