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nir on Sept 9, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama is RESTful

Open source is like capitalism in process and communism in result.

mseebach on Sept 9, 2008 [–]

It's neither. Both capitalism and communism deals specifically with the ownership of scarce goods. Software specifically isn't a scarce good.

But it's free market at its best. Both process and result.

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