The Simple Economics of Open Source

[Raffael Cavallaro]

In article <f4JdfuAkLKA5EwcQ at jessikat.demon.co.uk>, Robin Becker 
<robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Painters
>exchange ideas, concepts and criticism freely, but compete for
>customers.

Speaking as a painter, I can tell you that many painters do not share 
ideas and concepts, but are quite secretive about them. In fact, there 
is a long history of artists keeping their working methods secret from 
each other, for precisely the same reason that any other set of business 
competitors do.

Ralph

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Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffael at mediaone.net