Hello,

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Selvakumar Rajeswaran wrote:
> This economic side of FOSS is still vague in many of our minds in this 
> mailing list including me.

Here are some more articles on the topic.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001247.html

http://journal.dedasys.com/2009/03/27/codinghorror-and-open-source-economics

http://journal.dedasys.com/2009/03/27/software-economics-public-goods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good

I think it is only in a maximally free market economy like the USA
that people would think of a "public good" as something to be created
by "market forces". Software grew in the USA and so it has acquired
the economics of that country!

Regards,

Kapil.
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