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. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
