[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development

[Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>]

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.

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