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…in reply to @siebznet
@siebznet my point isn’t that this is a 1-to-1 analogy for FOSS, but rather that I’m trying to formulate a general theory of sharing, as to when it’s good and when it’s bad. My inclination is to believe that sharing is generally good, so when there are cases when it leads to bad results…
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…in reply to @cooljeanius
@siebznet …(like this, & cartels like OPEC) the question then becomes, well, what went wrong? I posit that the issue here isn’t that sharing was bad in this case, but rather that there wasn’t enough of it: they were keeping their sharing secret & lying about it rather than doing it openly
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…in reply to @cooljeanius
@siebznet I guess the lesson here is that any analysis of sharing needs to contain power analysis, too: sharing is good insofar as it extends power to people who didn’t have it previously, but it’s bad when it just consolidates power among those who already have it.
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