Homesteading the Noosphere
An essay written by Eric S. Raymond about the social workings of open source software development.
Original: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/
John Locke and land ownership.
Cultivating (homesteading) can lead to ownership.
The culture of giving is an adaptation to excess, not scarcity
I could write another sentence about the harm of self-deception in believing that we truly have "selfless motives" (despite all the psychological and behavioral evidence to the contrary). I could write, but I don't need to, about destroying "altruism" and reducing it to a clearly unconscious self-interest (among other shortcomings), which Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Ayn Rand have already done quite admirably.
Ayn Rand of Atlas Shrugged.
From the moment capitalism is able to create a surplus of wealth sufficient to allow many programmers to live in a culture of giving in the post-rare age, the industrial capitalist mode of soft production is ultimately destined to lose out to the competition.
Moore's Law for Everything will usher in a post-rare age / Post-Rarity Era.
As Moore's Law for Everything ushers in the Post-Rarity Era, the power of the god of things, which is born on the basis of scarcity, weakens, and Hau that makes giving to the public a good thing increases compared to exchange Mode C .
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