The Simple Economics of Open Source

[Neel Krishnaswami]

Bill Anderson <bill at libc.org> wrote:
> 
> *All* software is under copyright or patent. By your argument, no
> software is commodity.

Minor correction: it's possible to place software, like any other IP,
in the public domain. Some quite significant open source projects,
such as the CMUCL Common Lisp compiler, are in the public domain. j


Neel