March 19, 2006

interesting open source article

From The Economist:

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5 Responses to “interesting open source article”

  1. Pradeep says:

    Hugh,
    the link to the Economist article is prefixed with “mailto:” which is making the url to open up the mail client (outlook etc).
    Please do fix the link.
    And yeah, thanks for the link ;) Looks like a fairly informed article.

  2. Brian Clark says:

    Yes, what Pradeep said. Plus the link itself doesn’t appear to go to a valid URL.
    I know you’re sick, so don’t worry too much about it. But I really want to read that article.
    Guess I’ll have to use The Economist search function. Horrors! :)

  3. Hugh MacLeod says:

    thanks. fixed it.

  4. It reminded me a little on one of the Startrek movies (First Contact). When the visitor of our century saw the Enterprise she asked “Such a ship must be very expensive” and Captain Picard answered “We moved bejond money in our times”.
    It seems that the idea of a “common good” once liberated from doctrines or party rule is a viable (and profitable) way to work with. :-) stw