Re: query, query, quite contreery

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

ravi:
> Not speaking to Leigh or particular people here: I never quite
> understand why the economics left cannot come to terms with open source?
> Is it because of the libertarian tendencies of some in the OSS
> community? Is it because the OSS model is ultimately utopian/infeasible?
> Or is it because they have unknowingly accepted the
> capitalism/selfish-gene narrative?

there's a problem with sweeping generalizations: not only are the
usually based on a small sample of cases, but they are easy to knock
down by pointing to a counter-example. I'm in favor of open-source
software and I'm part of the "economics left."
--
Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only
an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal