Thread: interesting NYT article on "copyright morality"
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Old 12-31-2007, 09:42 AM   #218
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
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.
I think we are in agreement here - I didn't mean to imply that giving a gift includes the expectation that you'll get one in return.
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