Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times) [LWN.net]

Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

Posted Oct 23, 2004 12:27 UTC (Sat) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
In reply to: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times) by sepreece
Parent article: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

There is a characteristic of open-source (especially free, as in freedom) software that your analysis does not take into account:

Even if "one developer" is "familiar with xxx lines of code,) the work is still exposed to auditing, and you are free to modify it.

American-style, capitalist, "corner-the-market" businesspeople are loath to want this, if they are in the business of writing software to make money. Their desires are in direct conflict with *everyone else* who uses, or wishes to program, computers.

Also, I'm not impressed with catch-phrases like "worker's commune" and "creeping imperialism of the GPL."

I read the article.

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