Open Source: A Symptom of our own Nirvana?

Recently, we finally turned on the solar panel array that we had installed on our house last year. It got me thinking about things that are unlimited, like renewable energy, and the sharing of open source software. So I wrote about that for our latest column at the Open Source Business Resource.

"We spend a lot of time in open source circles navel gazing about the technology and how cool or incredible it is. But the technology doesn't exist in a vacuum. New business models arise because of some peculiar economics that are literally the opposite of everything that came before, and they don't just affect the Internet and open source. Our whole world is changing as we gradually turn many aspects of our lives from being based on scarcity into being based on plenty."

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