Comments on: First post, first rant :-p http://telegraph-road.org/blog/2007/01/13/first-post-first-rant-p/ Guillaume Laurent's blog Thu, 17 May 2012 21:57:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: glaurent http://telegraph-road.org/blog/2007/01/13/first-post-first-rant-p/#comment-2197 glaurent Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:58:59 +0000 http://telegraph-road.org/blog/?p=4#comment-2197 Thank you for your appreciation. However we've reached different conclusions, in my case I joined a less-fragmented Open Source sub-community, namely the OSX one :-) (though I've yet to contribute anything solid to it). Thank you for your appreciation. However we’ve reached different conclusions, in my case I joined a less-fragmented Open Source sub-community, namely the OSX one :-) (though I’ve yet to contribute anything solid to it).

]]> By: Zbigniew Lukasiak http://telegraph-road.org/blog/2007/01/13/first-post-first-rant-p/#comment-2196 Zbigniew Lukasiak Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:47:59 +0000 http://telegraph-road.org/blog/?p=4#comment-2196 This is spot on: which brings a funny paradox, in that OSS is often seen as being anti-capitalistic as opposed to the software industry, more specifically Microsoft, but at the project level, MS is the rigid communist one while OSS is the free-market contender I am as frustrated at the fragmentation of OS as you are - but I think that in the end the sweet spot of maximum evolutionary efficiency is closer to the OS free market way of doing things than the MS command economy. This is spot on:

which brings a funny paradox, in that OSS is often seen as being anti-capitalistic as opposed to the software industry, more specifically Microsoft, but at the project level, MS is the rigid communist one while OSS is the free-market contender

I am as frustrated at the fragmentation of OS as you are – but I think that in the end the sweet spot of maximum evolutionary efficiency is closer to the OS free market way of doing things than the MS command economy.

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