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A product people liked got shut down, so someone else rebuilt it. As a society, we're needlessly duplicating so much effort because we've decided treat software
by natrius 11y ago
A product people liked got shut down, so someone else rebuilt it. As a society, we're needlessly duplicating so much effort because we've decided treat software as a private good even though it's non-rivalrous and non-excludable. If we can come up with better ways to fund software, we can end this widespread waste and make progress faster.
- cloudjacker 11y agoin the open source community, the same problem occurs the moment that the steward rejects the pull request. So the altruist forks the project and releases it again with a new name.