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.
open-source software funding is subject to market forces that sometimes, but not always, correspond to what’s good for the internet.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
One of my earliest conversations with a prominent member of the free software movement (who I’ll keep anonymous) involved him sputtering angrily at the idea that open source had anything to do with the developers who produce it. He told me that code is “anarchist” and “untouchable,” and that it must be able to survive beyond any one person’s desire
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