Re:Why you should build an open-source startup
by hxa7241 on Friday May 20, 2011 @06:06PM
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If you keep everything to yourself, you help one person, yourself. If you share code, you benefit, what, 10 people? 100?, 1000?, 1000000? And if they share too . . . well you can see how the maths of that goes.
The share-ability of information is like a free natural resource. If we want to really make progress, we use it.
> why pay someone to write something when you can go get it for free and piece together yourself
To pay people to produce things that are already available for free would be economic nonsense. It would be just throwing away effort that could be spent on producing things that are not available and are needed.
The share-ability of information is like a free natural resource. If we want to really make progress, we use it.
> why pay someone to write something when you can go get it for free and piece together yourself
To pay people to produce things that are already available for free would be economic nonsense. It would be just throwing away effort that could be spent on producing things that are not available and are needed.