Open Source philosphy

the vapourthe vapour
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I am interested in understanding more about the background to open source philosophy in relation to software. Can anyone point me too a couple of good readable books, that are heavier on the philosophy as opposed to technical? For instance a question I am interested in is: Does open source philosphy draw an influence from an anti-capitalist ideal?



Any comments or suggestions!

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Read this site: <a href="http://www.opensource.org/"; target="_blank">http://www.opensource.org/</a>;

    Or more specifically, this page: <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php"; target="_blank">http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php</a>;



  • Reply 2 of 3
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    The idea of Open Source is from there being enormous licensing fees for software, and also amazing prices. The idea is that if you want to make money try to make something better than these people who are giving it out for free.



    Thus why GIMP (an open-source image editor) has not toppled Photoshpo <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
  • Reply 3 of 3
    the vapourthe vapour Posts: 23member
    Thanks, I think I got somewhat of an answer to my question.



    Buyers like being in a commodity market. Sellers dislike it.

    2.\tCommodity services and protocols are good for customers; they're less expensive, they promote competition, they generate good choices.

    3.\t"De-commoditizing" protocols means reducing choice, raising prices, and suppressing competition.

    4.\tTherefore, for Microsoft to win, the customer must lose.



    <a href="http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween1.php"; target="_blank">web page</a>
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