Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software
by davidw on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:17AM
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It's very easy and simple to pay $100 to use some bit of software. It's way harder to actually contribute to it meaningfully.
Software markets solve a coordination problem. Not perfectly, but reasonably well. Same thing goes for many other kinds of information goods. No way would I pay an author to sit around writing a book, but I'm happy to give them $5 for a copy.
Software markets solve a coordination problem. Not perfectly, but reasonably well. Same thing goes for many other kinds of information goods. No way would I pay an author to sit around writing a book, but I'm happy to give them $5 for a copy.