[LINK] foss is a charity

[Kim Holburn]

On 2006 Mar 27, at 12:42 PM, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> http://weblog.ipcentral.info/archives/2006/03/surprise.html
>
> 	"OpenSSH is included in every Unix-derived operating system, yet the
> 	total amount of assistance we've ever got from vendors is zero,"  
> said de
> 	Raadt. "It's astounding. I don't know what to do about it."
>
> "We do have some suggestions as to what he might "do about it." Charge
> money. For the Nth time, MARKETS are the way in which societies  
> achieve
> reciprocity and cooperation."

Actually almost all scientific advances in our society are based on  
free exchange of information, collaboration and sharing.  A model  
that matches the FOSS model almost exactly.  And it's because  
software development is a much closer match to say mathematical  
development that this works so well.

You know large companies (very large companies) don't back FOSS for  
charity, they back it, they put a lot of resources into it, because  
they get a lot back.

Kim

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