Eric S. Raymond on the Open Source Summit | Linux Today

Eric S. Raymond on the Open Source Summit

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 11, 1999

“I didn’t see “hackers vs. suits” at the Summit — just a whole
bunch of people trying in various ways to get a handle on a very
powerful and complex phenomenon.”

“Some plain truth: businesspeople can’t “crush” us because,
fundamentally, they can’t do *anything* to us except throw money or
refrain from throwing money. They can’t erase all our source
archives. They can’t stop tens of thousands of people from writing
code every day for reasons that are outside the ken of
material-scarcity economics.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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