Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 356
I personally think this is due to our social and economic models. We have, for better or worse, become a capitalist society in so many ways that we are used to thinking of things in a financial sense. It's not so much our active interest, more a this is what we did, and we'll keep on doing theme.
There have there have been a number of different philosaphies over the years which have threatened it, usually at a more intense level, from Communism through to restablishing Barter. I see OSS in just the same light. The difference is, this time, a worldwide following, a (generally speaking) peaceful purpose, and the ability for OSS models to greatly out-perform a commercial or closed one.
