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by platinumrad 2939 days ago
>GitHub, by contrast, grew out of the free software movement, which had similar global ambitions to Microsoft. The confused ideology behind it, a mixture of Rousseau with Ayn Rand, held both that humans are naturally good and that selfishness works out for the best.

>Free software

>selfishness works out for the best

???

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Uncharitable explanation is that someone read about half of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, thought that it was the definitive philosophy of everyone in Open Source, thought that they understood what it was talking about, and were wrong on both counts.

Still trying to come up with the charitable explanation, this article makes almost zero sense to me.