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Close Source development means that everyone (every company) is re-inventing the wheel again and again. Much development cost and time is wasted. Also, if some company dies, all the work might be lost.

I don't like the thought that one just totally waste the time and work of humans.

Open Source is working together with each one to advance the whole human race. Nothing is wasted. The whole human community benefits.

This is much more effective and makes more sense because you don't waste so much work resources for no reason.

It's also much more social.




Exactly. It's a move to avoid a Nash equilibrium and push the world towards a socially optimal configuration. (Ie a global optima for everyone ideally, rather than a Pareto optima.)




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