Re: Open Source vs. Commercial

Captain Jake wrote:
>
> 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.

The study of economics is supposed to discover how things actually work and
discover the principles involved, it is not to design some scheme, like
"perfect competition", that defies reality and then fault real people for
failing to allocate resources in the best "possible" way.

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