FOSS can work in the Free Market
This is in response to LeafStorm’s excelent post about the market economics of software and FOSS caleed FOSS and the Free Market.
He goes into explaining the difference between rivalrous and excludable and does a good job at explaining why it’s not possible per say to sell software as if it were a traditional product (like sandwiches).
He goes on to show how software is neither excludable or rivalrous and how efforts to make it excludable are attempts to defy the basics of market economics.
There is however one omission with the article.
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