Open source is voluntary cooperation. Marxism is involuntary cooperation enforced with violence. One leads to better software, the other to oppression and mass murder.
We are not the same.
Eric S. Raymondx.comOpen source is voluntary cooperation. Marxism is involuntary cooperation enforced with violence. One leads to better software, the other to oppression and mass murder. We are not the same.
It recently occurred to me that the really obvious comparison for what’s going on here is the open source software community back in the 90s. Eric S Raymond’s essay Homesteading the Noosphere, a reference text on the social norms and incentive structure of the free software movement, explains exactly what’s going on. We’re no longer dealing with a ... See more
Alex Danco • Homesteading the Twittersphere
Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right or software ``hoarding'' is morally wrong (assuming you believe the latter, which neither Linus nor I do), but simply because the closed-source world cannot win an evolutionary arms race with open-source communities that can put orders of magnitude more... See more