Re:Wikipedia on HHVM
by EGreg on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @09:35PM
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That is even better! Because that creates incentives to continue supporting it.
In the last several years I've spoken to libertarians, conservatives, progressives, various schools of economics etc. It's become clear to me that when platforms are free, more wealth is created. When Netscape open sourced their codebase, we got Firefox and WebKit. Linux, Webkit, WikiWikiWeb, Git, in fact all those image formats you can display without paying royalties or risking getting sued, obviously led to more wealth creation than proprietary siloed codebases. Eventually even MS opensourced their platform, after years of copying by Mono.
In the last several years I've spoken to libertarians, conservatives, progressives, various schools of economics etc. It's become clear to me that when platforms are free, more wealth is created. When Netscape open sourced their codebase, we got Firefox and WebKit. Linux, Webkit, WikiWikiWeb, Git, in fact all those image formats you can display without paying royalties or risking getting sued, obviously led to more wealth creation than proprietary siloed codebases. Eventually even MS opensourced their platform, after years of copying by Mono.