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## 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
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ our current state of affairs where economic models such as "freemium",
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
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Software spell.
## 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using an open stack but develops unpublished code (either closed source os lazilly left
@@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ Software spell.
* 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
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ A very liberal point of view:
-- 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: