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The project itself would not be a free-rider, because it would need to provide sufficient value to justify its cost. In a government system, expert judges are
by JesseAldridge 17y ago
The project itself would not be a free-rider, because it would need to provide sufficient value to justify its cost. In a government system, expert judges are the conventional way of making this assessment.
True, you would lose conventional market incentives, but you would gain all the benefits that history has shown come from open source: higher quality, lower cost, free exchange of ideas, etc.
For projects such as Clojure, which don't have an obvious business model, there is no better way to secure funding.
Force should be used when it will yield great benefits for society.
- dpatru 17y ago> Force should be used when it will yield great benefits for society. I agree with you that force should be used when it will yield great benefits. But I would define the greatest benefit to be liberty. Force should be used to defend liberty. The freedom govern one's own life and make one's own decisions is worth a lot more than the benefits of open-source software. The irony is that societies that value freedom over more tangible benefits like software tend to have more of both than societies that give up freedom for material benefits.
- Robin_Message 17y agoIf liberty is that important, don't you think there are more important arenas to fight in than funding of public goods? For example, Guantanamo bay and the so called "Patriot" Act?