Submission + - Free software is a weak mode of production?
F452 writes: "From Free Software Magazine, are we entering the age of a glorious coder's paradise, or will the bourgeoisie co-opt the digital factors of production? Is free software actually a weak mode of production?
'The success of GNU/Linux and other free software projects is annoying. Free and open source development doesn't fit neatly in the box of standard business practices and is therefore a problem. We really need to break free of those hippies at the Free Software Foundation and let the grown-ups manage things from here on out. Not to mention that the peer-based production model doesn't really work that great anyway.
Or at least, that's what I inferred from...'"
'The success of GNU/Linux and other free software projects is annoying. Free and open source development doesn't fit neatly in the box of standard business practices and is therefore a problem. We really need to break free of those hippies at the Free Software Foundation and let the grown-ups manage things from here on out. Not to mention that the peer-based production model doesn't really work that great anyway.
Or at least, that's what I inferred from...'"
