Post #1387635

@kentpitman @davefischer @tomjennings > I don't think the enabling thing was just at these people were > smart. I think it's that they had the freedom to explore. Market > economies are based on scarcity being valuable, but this economy was > not based on that and so it didn't have to hoard software, it could > share it. See the world, you have built it, with shoulders of iron. See the world, but it's not yours, say the stealers of Zion. - The Clash - The Equaliser My relationship to free software over my 30 years as a developer is founded upon the fact that it is what enabled my career. I didn't go to college, or have a local peer group. Learning linux, and using free tools to build my own workstation, clusters, and eventually, becoming a lisp programmer, would not happen with the generous sharing of others. I was able to share much of my work as open source, because little was actually depending upon the license. I agree with you, we should not confuse the visible and valorized "capitalist economy" with the entirety of the socio-economic systems that we depend on, build, and flourish within.