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Computer Zen: Is Open Source a Crap Idea?

“The graph at right is from a story in the Economist on Open
Source. It illustrates, fairly effectively, that talking and doing
are very different and that it’s way easier to talk than do–or at
least, it must be since so few people do and so many talk.

“There are a number of choice tidbits in the article. This sure
is true:

“‘The contributors are typically motivated less by altruism than
by self-interest…'”

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