The Simple Economics of Open Source
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Fri Apr 21 12:47:50 EDT 2000
Why does everyone miss the main point?
I (and you) are literally 100s of times more productive because
of open source. Imagine having to either invent it all yourself,
or duct tape together expensive half-assed closed "solutions".
Shudder.
Developers who share code are *enormously* more productive
than those who don't. So the range of problems that can be
attacked increases geometrically, so computers penetrate
new areas, so geeks stand a better chance of making a living.
Win-win situations are rarely profitably analyzed by
competitive models.
- Gordon
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