[fao_]

> Is "open source strategy" purely an economic tool?

Yes, because the only thing a good company cares about is economics -- namely, money.

This is, very literally, what the Cathederal and the Bazaar was about. Exploiting people's labour. ESR (i.e. the founder of the Open Source movement) very literally made an argument in the latter half of the book that goes "You get better performance out of people when you don't pay them/pay them less").

[ninkendo]

In what universe is ESR the founder of the open source movement? He wrote that book, and… fetchmail. Do you have him confused with RMS?

[lmz]

RMS is for Free Software, not Open Source.

[fao_]

lmao you're mixing up Free Software and Open Source Software, which are not the same thing.