Why do we have open source software, but few other industries do?
- Why do we have open source software, but few other industries do?
- Mostly because software is data, data is bits, and bits are non-rivalrous.
- You can have the bits, and I can too.
- Atoms are inherently rivalrous, but bits are inherently non-rivalrous.
- Open source is easy in a world of bits, and hard in a world of atoms.