> You could swap `book' and `author' with `code' and `programmer' and you get the open source model. As someone who has released open source code I don't think

> You could swap `book' and `author' with `code' and `programmer' and you get the open source model. As someone who has released open source code I don't think this analogy translates very well. I write code because I need it, I can then release it so hopefully others will use it and make it better. I can see how maybe a biographer would write a book because they wanted it to exist, but my belief is that the vast majority of authors don't write for this reason. > Data must be free I don't think you can just state this as a fact anymore than I can state, no person should be able to own more than $10,000,000.00.