At the time I was nonplussed by the comment, but a discussion at Tech Central Station today on developments at the Open Source Business Conference focussed my thinking a little. The Open Source movement is apparently being "mugged by reality," and dropping its collectivist roots in the process; it's a little like George Bernard Shaw's observation that if you aren't a socialist as a teenager you have no heart, and if you aren't a capitalist by thirty you have no brain:
The Open Source Business Conference demonstrated that capitalists have finally discovered a new way to think about software development. For innovation and economic growth to continue, calls for government intervention should be dismissed. Open source products require an open marketplace.
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You might be interested to know that one of the major figures in the Open Source world, Eric S. Raymond, is an avowed Libertarian and Second Ammendment advocate.
He maintains a blog called Armed and Dangerous.
See! They're not all commie anarcho-freaks trying to undermine the system.
Thanks for another plug.
So does he think that Microsoft should be legally restrained? Just wondered - I would have thought that anti-trust laws were anathema to Libertarians?
Rich, AFAIK she doesn't. And they are. :-)
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