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Open Source Is The Pinnacle Of The Free Market
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| Though I am not going to advocate Laissez-faire economics, I do want to point
| out that the open source world is as close as you can get to a pure free
| market. The reason is because if you make a product in the open source world,
| anybody is able to study it, modify it, redistribute it and even sell it
| without many restrictions.
|
| [...]
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| Proves Red Hat Is The Best
| This is not true of Red Hat. Red Hat makes billions, and if someone was able
| to take Red Hat, make it better and cheaper in a way that pleases customers
| there is nothing stopping them.
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http://californiaquantum.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/open-source-is-the-pinnacle-of-the-free-market/
Recent:
Bruce Perens: Is Open Source Capitalist or Communist?
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| The Linux distribution companies may or may not participate significantly in
| the Open Source projects whose work they distribute. All three of the above
| development paradigms - infrastructure, non-profit, or direct commercial,
| apply to the software packaged by the Red Hat, Canonical, and Novell.zuen
| toilet
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| The Mozilla Foundation is another interesting exception. Even though they're
| not operated for profit, they have gotten much of their funding from Google,
| who has an obvious interest in having good web browsers for their service
| business and doesn't want Microsoft or Apple to dominate the web. So, I'd put
| them in the "infrastructure" rather than "non-profit" category.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3809221/Bruce-Perens-Is-Open-Source-Capitalist-or-Communist.htm
The Open Source Community, the Worldwide Academy of Programming, Does Not
Discriminate
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| That would be the Open Source Community, the worldwide community of
| programmers and others who have created what I call the “Open Source
| Artifact,” an outstanding collection of software resulting from decades of
| open collaboration. All of it is available at no cost, and I can think of no
| other community, save science or medicine, that has made such a contribution.
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http://daveshields.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/the-open-source-community-the-worldwide-academy-of-programming-does-not-discriminate/
Corporate investment the price of Linux's freedom
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| But now it seems that every corporation has its finger in the open source
| pie, and every long standing free software developer has been employed by a
| multi-billion dollar company to work on the project of his or her choice.
| This change began to happen during the late nineties, prior to Red Hat's $6
| billion flotation on the NASDAQ, but became truly significant when IBM
| announced its commitment to Linux in December 2000.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/610008/corporate-investment-the-price-of-linuxs-freedom
What is an “Open Source Company?” The Billion Dollar Question
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| My poster child for this is, predictably, Google. As I discussed last year, I
| consider Google to be an “open source business” because the business is
| effectively built on open source. True, its software is no more open than,
| say, the pieces of the IBM portfolio that embed the Apache HTTP server, but
| it’s undeniable that Google is a business that is built on, with and from
| open source software. And while some will undoubtedly challenge their side of
| the give and take equation, given their contributions from Summer of Code to
| Mark Callaghan’s MySQL patches I find it hard to argue that they are not
| benefiting a variety of communities.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/02/25/opensource_billions/
Free Is Not Socialism
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| I've had a browser open with a two part series from the site "e-consultancy"
| for the better part of a month, debating whether or not it's even worth going
| through this battle again -- but it seems worth it to clear up some serious
| misconceptions. The first article decries "digital socialism" and the second
| part goes after the "tyranny of the consumer." This, by itself, seems
| contradictory. The capitalist free market works thanks to the tyranny of the
| consumer. That is, the entire reason why the free market works is because
| consumers have power to move to a competitor -- and that keeps producers
| in-line. Complaining about consumers getting their way is a rejection of
| capitalism and the free market, not support for it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/0323212915.shtml
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