On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:46:16AM +0100, Dave Long wrote:
> So, apart from the former being atoms and the latter being bits, what are
> the differences between khadi and open source software?
most people who wear khadi today neither spin their own cotton, weave their own
cloth, or have any clue as to how that is done.
most people buy khadi from large shops such as khadi gramudyog, and the
production while not mechanical is pretty industrial in its structure.
given that the end-product is a cloth with no more malleability ("source code")
than any industrially produced cloth, i can't see what's similar between open
source and the real production of khadi (as opposed to some arbitrary imagined
form).
-rishab
