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Re: [FYI] Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:22:46PM +0100, Axel H Horns (horns@ipjur.com) wrote:

> scarcity" gift economies. It suggests that classical economic theory 
> offers a more succinct explanation for the peculiar international 
> distribution of open source development: hacking rises and falls 
> inversely to its opportunity cost. This finding throws doubt on the 
> Schumpeterian assumption that the efficiency of industrial systems 
> can be measured without reference to the social institutions that 
> bind them.  

Ein schreckliches Gesuelze.

> David Lancashire is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political 
> Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  

Und nun wissen wir warum.



/tom


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