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Re: The "free software community"

Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> My attraction to Free Software has as much to do with social
> engineering as it does with software engineering. The Free Software
> model creates "real wealth" without "capital investment".
> I am intrigued by the thought that this model might be applied to
> other areas of manufacturing. 
> It is my considered opinion that this can not happen until there is
> a viable philosophy, accepted by society, that can guide the
> operation of such an economy.
> I see the philosophical underpinning for the Free Software movement
> as having been created by RMS and the FSF, but implimented in an
> appropriate development model by Linus and to a different degree by
> Ian Murdock with his creation of the Debian distribution.
> The proof will take some time to become apparent, but I think it is
> clear that Linux, and free software in general, are beginning to
> make a real impact on the "capitalist" side of the economics of
> software development.
> What this means to the future is anyones guess.

I heartly agree.

And really I would prefere to see a discussion about this instead of one
about our "religious" concerns, which scare me a lot.

I am strongly convinced that the use of the "bazaar" model in developing
Debian is the reason of its quality and of its growing success.

I also would like to demontrate to Alex and others that their
"apparently reasonable" request will break that model and Debian
therefore. No religion nor dogmas here. DFSG wasn't a "decision" taken
after personal feelings, but a technical requirement to let the model
works.
This is also, as a side effect, the reason why DC's fears about the
future of Debian were simply waporware: the model guarantees about that.


Fabrizio
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