[HN Gopher] Open-Source Software Is Worth a Lot More Than You Pa...
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       Open-Source Software Is Worth a Lot More Than You Pay for It
        
       Author : petethomas
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2024-02-26 16:24 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
        
       | david_allison wrote:
       | Source paper[0] is discussed at [1]
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       | Related blog post criticizing this study[2]
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       | [0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693148
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       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340277
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       | [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340146
        
       | oever wrote:
       | > Open-source software may well be the greatest "public good" the
       | market economy has ever produced. What it shows is the power of
       | voluntary social cooperation.
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       | And that's why Richard Stallman deserves to win the Nobel Prize
       | in Economics.
        
         | a_wild_dandan wrote:
         | Can those be awarded posthumously? I'm about it.
        
           | snovymgodym wrote:
           | ?? Stallman isn't dead
        
       | precompute wrote:
       | For most people, Open-Source software is free at the very least
       | warrants _some_ money going towards the programmers, certainly
       | much more than is the norm today.
        
       | nusl wrote:
       | I wonder how much open source software sits under what's required
       | to create this post, and that powers Bloomberg. I also wonder how
       | much Bloomberg pays open source projects.
       | 
       | I got a paywall though so I can't read the article. I guess
       | there's some irony there.
        
         | cmacleod4 wrote:
         | I used to work at Bloomberg. They do use plenty of open-source
         | software, but they also open-source some of their own work, and
         | they do support other projects, e.g. sqlite.
        
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