| Heiko Recktenwald on Thu, 13 Dec 2001 04:08:01 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development |
Hi, On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Felix Stalder wrote: > I never understood why people think of Open Source in terms of _altruism_. <..> > But let's forget for a moment software and look at another great Open > Source project: the law. Nobody would claim lawyers as a profession to be > altruistic, even though there are certainly individuals with altruistic > motives. Many of them are highly paid and some are very much motivated by Isnt the legal system in some form "altruistic" per se ? But I wouldnt call it "Open Source". Casebooks are books. Ideas are free anyway. At least outside of the world of patents for gifs etc.. H. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold