[p2p-research] Is the P2PFoundation a Shill for Proprietary Software?

[Kevin Carson]

On 10/19/09, Athina Karatzogianni <athina.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems this raises again the issue of ideology I think in p2p which so far
> has been a bit conveniently thrown under the carpet, especially in relation
> to the commercialization and promotion of the open source and open products
> in general.

I've got no problem promoting the commercial development of
open-source.  Commerce is good; what's bad is artificial scarcity.  A
market economy without embedded rents on IP would be pretty awesome
IMO.

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