Communities can engage thousands of skilled labourers while even the biggest multinational company can hardly afford to pay more than a few hundred developers. However, this touches on something else that I believe to be as interesting, the fact that voluntary labour of communities achieve better than the best and brightest of alienated wage labour.
Companies does not choose 'open source', it is already there challenging commercial interests, the best chance companies have for damage-control is to engage in order to manipulate, for the community activity not to develop into direct antagonism with capitalist interests (as it does anyway, exemplified with programs for file-sharing and circumvention of copyright protection).
Here is the irresistible rebel movement confronting the immovable object of maximum profit. Victory to these worker/rebel in their current struggle.
Could you please list once again your writings on this matter. I read much of the material but lost the location.
Melvin P.
