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Comment on The One in Which I Say Open Source Software Sucksparent

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What economic model are you referring to?

The electronic gift economy. People collaborating and working for free to produce electronic goods.

The point of the article is that, so far, open source only works when there's a company behind it, and companies are structured the way they are, I would argue, because of their profit motive.

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