Open source is not how we got here. We now reap the benefits of centuries of well organized publicly funded research and private for profit business activities. We should not misunderstand or misconstrue history.
What technology and advancement has open source really given us, that isn't just piracy when it comes right down to it? I realize I am asking a selection of would-be pirates. Genuine question.
We skim the cream off the top and tend to take all the credit.
You're saying open source is nothing but piracy in the long run? Strange. But if this open source pirate subject just translates to open source technology being a parasite feeding off of organized large scale labor like that from a geopolitical country, then any open source failure would invite the possibility of open source being an optional feature of any intellectual culture. Open source is a failed experiment, perhaps? Open source being a failed experiment would definitely make sense if open source is basically the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin. On the way to its decentralizing disintegration into new derivatives.
What technology and advancement has open source really given us, that isn't just piracy when it comes right down to it? I realize I am asking a selection of would-be pirates. Genuine question.
We skim the cream off the top and tend to take all the credit.