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Originally Posted by sanders
If you want to see true "gift economy" on the internet, you could much better look at the Open Source community. These people put their money where their mouth is. Instead of saying "It's ridiculous I have to pay for Microsoft Word, so I'll download a crack instead", they say "Let's team up and write a free replacement."
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Why do you call that a truer gift economy? I think that the open source community is much less a gift economy than the pirate scene community. I write free code because I believe it makes the world a better place to live in. I do not do it because I expect something in return. What I have glimpsed from pirate scenes is that peoples main motivation is that they get something back. The thinking is more based on the shareware mentality and not the open source mentality.