Getting to the root of open source
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| Both the book and the essay were striking because they
| represented a completely different take on today's
| intellectual property battles: Western, individualist IP
| law has huge gaps in it when you come to study
| collaborative societies in other parts of the globe.
| And yet, the open-source movement makes a lot more sense
| when it's viewed alongside societies that collaborate to
| produce dances and songs to worship spirits or that share
| cooking pots. These works go a long way toward answering
| his original question: is it really altruism that makes
| people contribute to open-source software? Traditional
| economics would hold that this was impossible, that
| people behave according to rational self-interest.
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