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I think that's demonstrably untrue -- open source and free software has had a massive economic and cultural impact with precious little of that originating from
by overgard 11y ago
I think that's demonstrably untrue -- open source and free software has had a massive economic and cultural impact with precious little of that originating from the involvement of business people or community leaders. (For instance, the GNU project or the linux kernel -- not to mention how many commercial products must use zlib). Business support almost always comes after the value has been created.
- exolymph 11y agoI would argue that free and open-source software tools have far more of an economic impact when they're used by companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc, or otherwise packaged from consumer use.
- exolymph 11y agoI wrote a blog post responding to this: http://sonyaellenmann.com/2016/03/middlemen-are-crucial-open-source-software-economic-growth.html http://sonyaellenmann.com/2016/03/middlemen-are-crucial-open...