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Re: The "free software community" does not include Linus

Kai Henningsen wrote:
> 
> There is a field that, until recently, was a lot bigger and also
> had a strong tradition of sharing.
> 
> That field is science.

This is the essence of the scientific method.
Sharing results is a consequence of the necessity to have others
"repeat" the results.
Considering final results as being simply the starting points of future
studies is one of the base of the scientific method.

Patents were originally created to balance commercial needs for secrecy
with science's need for sharing informations.

Science didn't always follow this: pitagorians kept secret their
progress in mathematics (they killed one of them that revealed
something). They probably had good reasons to do this way: from
Prometheus to Galilei religions had always condemned the progress in
knowledge.

> 
> Interestingly enough, it seems the "giving away" worked better in
> capitalist system than in communist systems. All sorts of interesting
> theories could be built on that :-)

In a communist system is the establishment that controls the
distribution. You're not allowed to "give away", but you have to "give
to them"; they will redistribute (hopefully).


Fabrizio
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