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It's particularly surprising in a place where people who create software gather. You'd think we'd all know better...


Your comment is surprising. People who create software are very often interested in open source and free software, and I think it's a relatively common view within the tech community that trying to enforce artificial scarcity is a kind of rent seeking and not a desirable or sustainable business model. I know there is also a "you wouldn't steal a car" crowd that confuses imaginary property with real, but certainly other views are common. I'm basically a die-hard capitalist, I just don't believe in rent seeking.


What are you talking about with "rent seeking"? We made software. We offer that software for sale. Why is selling software rent seeking?

I love open source too, I just don't think proprietary software is problematic.


What's surprising is people pretending to be surprised to find pro-FOSS opinions on a forum called "Hacker News."




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