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Re:Post Scarcity Economics by davidw on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:29AM (#6494176)
> OSS is there in fact.

As someone who has spent many hours hacking on open source software, I'm not sure I'd call it 'abundant' in that the production of said software is very much a costly endeavor. Once it's out there, yes, it's non-rivalrous, but that's a different thing.

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Re:Post Scarcity Economics by jayfuerstenberg on Friday October 04, 2013 @04:46AM (#6494379)
Well I'm certain the internet as we know it today is largely a result of Linux being free.

Imagine the costs of getting a service oriented internet company up and running in a world where the only choice is Windows and IIS.

I wonder how much longer it would take sites like Youtube to scale to their current size.

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Re:Post Scarcity Economics by vidarh on Friday October 04, 2013 @05:54AM (#6494538)
You're going to get some FreeBSD (and other *BSD) users riled up with that one (Hotmail and Yahoo, for example, are too notable services that did - in Hotmails case until well after the Microsoft acquisition - or do - in Yahoo's case - use FreeBSD extensively)
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