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Subject: Re: A Question of Ethics (was: Overriding Acrobat User Settings)
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:08:23 -0700

Jane Carnall wrote:


Actually, I'd say that open source and communism neither provide a free
lunch. Both tap into a basic resource, unrecognised by formal economics,
which provides a large part of the labour on which the formal economic
system depends: people's willingness to provide unpaid labour when they see
a job that needs doing and feel themselves responsible for doing it. Both
housework and childcare are largely resourced using this method, and (as any
feminist economist will tell you) it works alarmingly well.


Eben Moglen, the lawyer who wrote the GNU General Public License, which most open source products use, insists that the movement is really anarcho-syndicalism: that is, people voluntarily getting together to fill a common need.

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