capitalism and open source

capitalism and open source

Posted Oct 22, 2004 21:58 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: capitalism and open source by vsp
Parent article: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

" "struggle for recognition" "

Its only a gut-feeling but i belive, that is the 3th reason, *reason*, that is the major propeller of Open Source...

Dont want and or need to get philosophical, be full of references... because most of times, reasons to revolutionary or deep changing events are very simple in nature...

What would do thounsand of programmers sorting every year from Universitys arround the world, or casual *lovers* involved by it, and that simply just *LOVE* their craft, in a closed monopolitic world ?...

...they will simply code, no matter what... they are compeled to code, not for political, economical, social, recognition reasons, but because of coding itself... because that is what they love to do...
Give one million dollar each before starting... they will code...
Give them nothing... they will code...
Build them statues... they will code...
Call them commie hippyes... they will code...
Inprison them... they will code on the walls!(just a strong metaphor)

And i'm not implying that was Microsoft that inadvertly triggered Open -Source... more or less billion, liking or not, Microsoft is just *ONE* resistance force, nothing more, in a similar way as the road is the resistance to a car tire, by which the *love* of computer coding will move foward...

Love (Latin: Amors = without dead ; so please dont confound it with desire or any sexual emotion) is the true everlasting energie behind any *reason*.

One can say that Open Source was just meant to be... because there was an irresistible energie with it... if you can define so subtle and yet so overwhelming powerfull reason!

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