At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This leads to tragedy of the commons-type problems and a difficulty in encouraging the creation of more open source.
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kiba
16 years 4 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago
Outrageously Dangerous Move
The idea of a collapse in the market for the development of free software is laughable. There is alway a need, a scarcity, and a demand that need to be fulfilled. So there will be programmers willing to be paid for the development of free software and owners willing to provide them.
If companies stop funding development of free software, I would think that it meet their needs so well that it doesn't need further funding. This implication is something that we should be celebrating, not crying about it.
Also it is a dangerous route to let the government subsidizes the funding of free softwares. This meant a bigger budget, thus more justification for robbery(aka taxation) of the public in order to fund whatever the government thinks that the public needs(more than often not, it is a mismatch). Even if taxes did not goes up, government spending surely will. Remember, government spending is not restrained by taxation at all.(Since they can print money and all) This will surely mean more inflation.
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kiba
16 years 4 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago
Uh oh. I somehow look over
Uh oh. I somehow look over the first few paragraph of the article.
Nonetheless, my comment in its entirely still stand.
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yamanu
16 years 4 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago
Open or free?
Isn't this article pretty much orthogonal to the idea of free software? I hope that distinction between terms is clear to editors and user of this site.