## Review
-While Raymond has inumerous insights on the dynamic of the free software
+While Raymond has innumerous insights on the dynamic of the free software
communities, he got political economy wrong, including, but not only by:
-* Chosing to focus on Lockean philosofical considerations.
+* Choosing to focus on Lockean philosophical considerations.
* Putting altruism as a mode of appearance for an egotistical reward strategy.
Reading this book years after the "Open Source Revolution" has begun, the whole
privatizing and concentrating the notion of property, i.e, transforming even
personal property in a "service": you don't own your gadget or content like
music you purchase, because of DRM, EULAS and the inability to repair your
-stuff, see the iRepair movemnt.
+stuff, see the iRepair movement.
-Raymond assumes that "the veredict of history seems to be free-market capitalism
+Raymond assumes that "the verdict of history seems to be free-market capitalism
is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency" which, besides
-being an "end of history"-type fallacy -- as we didn't tried yeat many, many
+being an "end of history"-type fallacy -- as we didn't tried yet many, many
possible economical systems, but only very few --, has wrong assumptions about
what is "optimal", "cooperation" and "efficient": just look about resource
-depletion, absurd wealth concentration by the extremelly rich and lack of
+depletion, absurd wealth concentration by the extremely rich and lack of
basic dignity for most of human population, not to mention animal/nature rights.
Capitalism is based in the need that something is scarce, if not naturally then
## Ideas while reading the book
-* Hipothesis: sunstainability of "Open Source" economic model in Brazil was mostly embraced
+* Hypothesis: sustainability of "Open Source" economic model in Brazil was mostly embraced
by the government, by an army of free lancers and by a small number of business; while
open source is widely used in the country, it's mostly on the free rider mode: everyone
using an open stack but develops unpublished code (either closed source os lazilly left
* Kropotkin is cited at page 52: "principle of understanding" versus the
"principle of command".
-* Visão libertariana: "The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free
+* Conservative vision: "The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free
market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize
utility, which in the process produces a self-correcting spontaneous order
more elaborate and efficient than any amount of central planning could have
- achieved." (page 52). Logo em seguida ele nega a existência de um autruísmo
- puro.
+ achieved." (page 52). Right afterwards he negates the existence of true
+ altruism.
## Economics
-- 80-81
He also explains that the reputation game is not the only drive in the
-bazaar-style ecosystem: satisfation, love, the "joy of craftsmanship" are also
+bazaar-style ecosystem: satisfaction, love, the "joy of craftsmanship" are also
motivations for software development (pages 82-83), which is compatible
with the gift economy model: