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Why Capitalist Pigs Would be Good for Mozilla

Aug 13, 2007, 23:15 (0 Talkback[s])
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"I won't go into the economics, but suffice it to say that I think there's little hope of Mozilla making Firefox (or any of its other software) into true public goods of any note. The best it can hope for, here on Planet Earth, is for software in the public interest.

"Mitchell Baker suggests that the web would be better off with robust public interest aspects. She's 100% right.

"Where she may be wrong is in how she thinks we get there..."

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