At 11:33 PM 20/07/2001 -0700, Technotranscendence wrote:
>Regarding the open source movement, How does this differ from a free market?
>People cooperating and competing as they want sounds to me just like a free
>market. I don't see how some people can see this as anti-free market.
Who said it was anti-free-market? Much of the thinking is the same. The 2
philosophies dovetail nicely.
Of course, I see: you thought that because I am not totally committed to
capitalism that I am rabidly anti-free market. And that I mentioned it as a
way to improve upon some of capitalism's failings then it must be being
proposed as a competing anti-free-market philosophy.
>Certainly, the open source movement is open and not regulated by any
>government body. Voluntary acceptance of standards and protocols is not
>regulation.
>
>Isn't even the grounding metaphor in Raymond's "The Cathedral and the
>Bazaar" (at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ ) for open
>source a market? The bazaar?
Exactly.
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