I originally invented the analogy to make some friends of mine who had a very strong market oriented mindset, understand open source. This was many years ago, when the likes of Microsoft painted open source in the light of anarcho hippie communism. I needed to explain to them that open source is closer to their thinking than some Fortune 500 behemoth that is capitalism on the outside but basically socialism inside.
I originally invented the analogy to make some friends of mine who had a very strong market oriented mindset, understand open source. This was many years ago, when the likes of Microsoft painted open source in the light of anarcho hippie communism. I needed to explain to them that open source is closer to their thinking than some Fortune 500 behemoth that is capitalism on the outside but basically socialism inside.