Re: Open Source vs. Commercial

"Nick Hodges [TeamB]" <nickhodges@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> All decisions we make have opportunity costs, sure. But FOSS
> developers produce things that others value. Clearly that is a
> benefit. It's the height of hubris for /you/ to say that someone
> else's time could be spent more efficiently.

Only if you feel that economics itself is the height of hubris, since the
efficiency of how humans organize themselves is the subject of economics.

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