"most of the companies spending big money to develop open source software are doing it because it’s a good business strategy for them, not because they suddenly stopped believing in capitalism and fell in love with freedom-as-in-speech."

#EconomicThinking in #opensource software development

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Strategy Letter V

When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…

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