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0 pointsEGreg5y ago0 comments

As a left-libertarian leaning person, I believe that "the long arc of society bends towards collaboration rather than competition."

I'm talking about:

  Wikipedia beating Britannica and Encarta
  The Web beating AOL / MSN / Compuserve / Prodigy
  Apache and NGinX beating IIS
  Linux beating Windows for tons of apps & archs
  Science beating Alchemy

I mean, I believe it so strongly, I put years and reinvested tons of profits of my own company into an open source platform that would be an alternative to Facebook / LinkedIn / Google etc. (https://github.com/Qbix/Platform). And then I started an experimental project to "disrupt" our own company and decentralize the Web even further (https://intercoin.org). We still have a long way to go, but I think just like the Web unleashed trillions in value that could never be built on top of AOL, we will see the same with Web 2.0 (FAMGA) etc.

But it will take time. Open source collaboration is the tortoise, closed source competition is the hare.

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gruez5y ago· 1 in thread

This might address the "closed source" problem (although personally I'm skeptical it would work), but doesn't address the problem of how to get people to perform reviews.

EGregOP5y ago

True. That requires different incentives. But we have to move from a mindset of competition to collaboration first. Everyone building on the same platform and merging source code back unless there is a really good reason to fork and compete.

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