| Your model is like commerce: create a necessary minimum of value and and exchange it for as much as you possibly can. If other people use your stuff to create their own, they must pay for the privilege. The OS model is like science: create the best thing you can and publish it - not in exchange for nothing, but under the assumption that other people will do the same with their findings. If they can use your stuff to make their product better, that's progress. You gain, because they develop an idea which you are or have been working on, and you can now use their ideas for your work. Which is better? I'll leave that question to the trolls. Certainly both have worked well for centuries, albeit in different contexts. To me as a non-coder it's undecided (and probably undecidable) whether computer programs are best treated as merchandise or as ideas. |
