[wplug] COLLABORATION AS DISTRIBUTED CAPITALISM?

[Vanco, Donald]

David Ostroske wrote:
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> The not-for-profit entities help to preserve the technical autonomy of
> the projects (no market droids!) as well as to maintain the
> open-source community's natural currency, their pride in crafting
> really great software. That's valuable in and of itself, but it
> doesn't exist in a vacuum. 
	What's really sad (from my perspective in my day-to-day job) is
trying to convince those in my company of this.  They have a real hard time
wrapping their heads around the concept that software developed in an open
and "free" environment can be really, really great stuff.  As stupid as it
sounds, I'd have an easier time passing some software solutions if they were
_not_ zero cost.
	I spend 50-60% of my time as a "marketing puke" (albeit technical
marketing) - but I market open source ISVs....

Don