Linked by David Adams on Mon 16th Aug 2004 17:44 UTC
I read something in one of the comments for an OSNews posting a couple weeks ago that sent me thinking. It wasn't an original or profound thought. In fact, it's a rather commonly-held opinion that happens to be quite misguided. It's an opinion summed up by the "open source = communist" meme that gets thrown around in thousands of flamewars all over the internet. In this essay, I will explore why this idea is wrong and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.
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Also, an example of good closed source developpement is the game industry. Competition exists therefore good games and innovation is coming...
This is a terrible example. The games industry is currently living off pretty graphics and sequels to successful titles. There is practically zero innovation aside from in the field of graphics engines. Anything that is truly innovative, or not from certain genres, is sidelined as being too risky to develop.
Roll on the next first person shooter/driving game/god sim. Let's just keep chewing that cud instead of searching for greener grass.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the article, I just happen to think that sharing source code is pretty irrelevant. Ideas and algorithms are the only thing that needs to be open, IP for source code is perfectly justified. IP for algorithmics is not.