rkmt Open software and free software is a sublime optimal strategy for the entire homo sapiens species because “it is a human loss to duplicate and recreate code that someone else has already made.” I hope you don’t reduce it to a trivialized story like “I’m cracking it.
nishio “open software and free software are a sublime optimal strategy for the entire homo sapiens species that “it is a human loss to duplicate and recreate code that someone has already made. sublime optimal strategy.” Gosh.
nishio By the way, in the case of a service that is used by multiple people via the web, the open source source code alone is not enough to demonstrate its value. It is necessary to put it in a server and operate it. Since duplicating this operation is also a loss to humanity, wouldn’t the best strategy be to consolidate the operation to a company that performs the operation and pay the maintenance fee as a sub-subscriber?
nishio If the source code is made public, there will be multiple operators and it will be a loss to humanity, so the best strategy is to keep the source code secret, crush it with patents to prevent similar services from being created, and create a monopoly by keeping the source code secret and using patents to prevent the creation of similar services, isn’t this the optimal strategy? Should we abandon the antitrust law because it is a loss to humanity?
nishio Even if “monopolistic firms can be inefficient due to lack of competition,” there are better methods of human efficiency than banning monopolies because “competition is a human loss.” I guess so.
nishio For example, a spin-out promotion tax system to promote the distribution of knowledge, or nationalizing the facilities of large inefficient companies and lending them cheaply to start-ups.
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