Open Source capitalists

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Aug 27 08:32:59 PDT 2001


Lawrence wrote:
>
> There was a brief article today on osonline stating that IBM was giving up
> its unix OS and switching to Linux. That has interesting implications. The
> Open Source movement is the most successful communal effort ever at building
> something of value. Now a large capitalist power wants to stake its future
> on that movement. IBM is giving up AIX, something they've invested billions
> in over the years, and instead will try to be good members of the open
> source community. What will capitalism think of next?
>

_Capital_ , the _Grundrisse_ etc. are filled with references to the dependence of capital on the free contributions of science. There is absolutely nothing new about IBM's decision.

Carrol



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