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I always thought Open Source was fairly conservative, at least in the Burkean sense. It's a decentralized set of customs, handed down from person to person with

I always thought Open Source was fairly conservative, at least in the Burkean sense. It's a decentralized set of customs, handed down from person to person without being imposed from above or overthrown from below.

nir 18y ago
Open source is like capitalism in process and communism in result.
- mseebach 18y ago
  It's neither. Both capitalism and communism deals specifically with the ownership of scarce goods. Software specifically isn't a scarce good. But it's free market at its best. Both process and result.