> while i don't disagree with your overall position, i can tell you that
> business isn't seduced in socialist economic production. the company i work
> for simply used things open source applications because they are free. no
> one, save for a few geeks, understands why its free, how it was developed,
> yadda. they only care that the software cost them nothing. of course, the
> software almost always has to be beefed up and adapted to fit our system and
> needs, so it costs them something. but from what i've seen, open source
> isn't doing jack to change anything.
I think software libre's value in being used in non-public settings is mostly in having a solid example ready at hand of something high-quality that is collectively owned. People may not stumble on the notion by themselves, but I've managed to leave a person or two with their gears turning.
-- Andy