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The thing I like the most about capitalism is the whole laissez-faire liberalism aspect. You do what you think best, I do what I think best. I don't have to do
by Zezov 5y ago
The thing I like the most about capitalism is the whole laissez-faire liberalism aspect. You do what you think best, I do what I think best. I don't have to do things your way, you don't have to do things my way.
In particular, this is what allows us to try out new things: for one, open source. It's really nice to not need approval from anyone before starting your new project, and to me that's the best part of capitalism (though you may choose to call that liberalism instead, it's the same laissez-faire spirit: each person does what they think is best.)
A capitalist world is therefore a great place for open source to grow and blossom—rightly or wrong, you might not like capitalism for other reasons, but this, at least, is to its credit.
(I myself would also argue with describing Open Source as socialism, for similar reasons—the laissez-faire spirit of everyone doing what they think is best is the spirit of capitalism as I see it. But that's mostly just a semantic point.)
- jqpabc123 5y agoA capitalist word is therefore a great place for open source to grow and blossom... Alrighty then. So Open Source is growing and blossoming in capitalism and there is no problem and this article is just totally misguided?
- Zezov 5y agoYes, open source is doing quite well. Nothing is perfect. There are things worth improving. But it's hard to look at all the amazing open source projects that exist and not be impressed. Is there more to be done? Sure. But don't take for granted what we have. Nor should we throw away what we have because it's imperfect. So no, I'm not saying that everything is perfect as it is. I do think the article is misguided in its focus, though. The way I'd frame it is something like this: What we have is great, but not perfect. So let's work to make it even better.