There Is No Open Source Community (O'ReillyNet)

There Is No Open Source Community (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jan 19, 2006 18:49 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (guest, #216)
In reply to: There Is No Open Source Community (O'ReillyNet) by cpm
Parent article: There Is No Open Source Community (O'ReillyNet)

I've been recently coming to the conclusion that the problem is the legal requirement that profit come above everything else--that investors' profit trumps (no pun intended) everything else, such as employee health, safety and quality of life, quality of products, customer support, ethical and environmental questions, etc. These things are only considered at all because if they weren't, profits would go down. If somehow they can be mollified with minimum efforts, that's all that will be invested in them.

Somehow this needs to change. How? I have no idea. But I think it has to come from within individual people rather than from outside--the community can do a lot to show that helping your neighbor is the better path, but if people are addicted to individual power and selfishness, that community example doesn't mean anything to them (if anything it is seen as a dangerous bunch of radicals which need to be squashed like a bug).

Sigh...

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