Re: open source policy across the globe
Russell Nelson <[email protected]>
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L Jean Camp writes: > The software market "works" under an exclusion model even when there is > proof, in running code and viable businesses, that the exclusion model > is not necessary. I don't think we should prohibit closed software, > don't get me wrong, but that a strict property model makes more money > for some subset of the people involved in software does not make it > superior in policy terms. Of course. They're monopolies charging monopoly prices. The markets that you criticize don't sustain monopolies. The only sustainable monopolies are government-granted monopolies. -- --My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | I'm giving a short Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | talk at WTF, Isen's 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | stupid net conference: Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | FWD# 404529 via VOIP | http://stupidnet.com