Monday 16 December 2013

Open Source Software is Anarchism*

There is No Governing body

People come together purely through enlightened self-interest to build something useful

Yes there are freeloaders
yes there is chaos
yes standards vary

But some amazing stuff gets built despite all that.


* Note: anarchism != anarchy... go look it up, if you've never heard of it before...

No. it wouldn't work as a form of government for obvious reasons (ie people are still people)... but that isn't the point I'm trying to make here.

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