I don't think ESR misses the non-financial aspects of open source -- I believe he focuses upon the financial aspects because OS advocates have shied away from them historically, and because of his generally libertarian politics (appealing to the self-interest of others is usually easier than to their love for their fellows, and it's certainly easier to explain to the average person).
Despite what some say, ESR is definitely a very spiritual person -- atheistic Discordian, but still spiritual. And he definitely is not blind to the non-financial aspects of OS, or of life in general, if his writings are any indication.
And I'm sure he meant corrupt in the sense that "traditional business values" (profit over all else) will be "corrupted" by the superior virtues of the OS community -- honesty, integrity, etc.
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I don't think ESR misses the non-financial aspects
of open source -- I believe he focuses upon the financial aspects because OS advocates have shied away from them historically, and because of his generally libertarian politics (appealing to the
self-interest of others is usually easier than to their love for their fellows, and it's certainly easier to explain to the average person).
Despite what some say, ESR is definitely a very spiritual person -- atheistic Discordian, but still spiritual. And he definitely is not blind to the non-financial aspects of OS, or of life in general, if his writings are any indication.
And I'm sure he meant corrupt in the sense that "traditional business values" (profit over all else) will be "corrupted" by the superior virtues of the OS community -- honesty, integrity, etc.
-damaged justice
looking lame with a cut off sig and not bothering to fix it yet