>> "But guess what: competition sucks. Cooperation is much better.
One of the biggest problems with competition is that it means
that somebody has to lose. For every winner, someone is a loser.
That person is going to be hurting. In the case of open source,
someone has spent (possibly) years of their life working on
something, and now, all of that is gone. That shit stings."
A thoughtful post by Steve, but I don't agree with this quote at all. It's misdirected to think that an idea is worth more just because someone has put a lot of time into it. It's also dangerous to assume that there must one way to do something and that it has to work for everyone.
Many others have said this before me, but it bears repeating: Open source is not a zero-sum game. New ideas and implementations do not come at the expense of existing code. The pieces don't get smaller; the whole pie gets larger.
A thoughtful post by Steve, but I don't agree with this quote at all. It's misdirected to think that an idea is worth more just because someone has put a lot of time into it. It's also dangerous to assume that there must one way to do something and that it has to work for everyone.
Many others have said this before me, but it bears repeating: Open source is not a zero-sum game. New ideas and implementations do not come at the expense of existing code. The pieces don't get smaller; the whole pie gets larger.