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where's the conflict? (Score:1)

by mr_bean (3802) on 2007.02.24 19:51 (#53387) Journal

Here's a similar metaphor of progress in computer science and software engineering, but emphasizing conflict and self-promotion, rather than serene aspirations, planning and cooperation.

People are trying to climb a hill, but the hill is a living, struggling mass of bodies, each body being of a person trying to climb the hill on the backs of the others.

What we support is no more and no less than what we think will help us scramble to the top.

If I did not see further, it was because those on whose shoulders I would stand would stand on mine. --Dr Bean

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  by schwern (1528)
  
  That seems to assume its a zero-sum game. Fortunately, OSS is not.

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