Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Maciej Stachowiak
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:00

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> This again is a coherent view.
> Again, it may force you into extreme positions.
> You accept that the results of the market game are not moral.
> The market game may lead to results which are in sharp contradiction to
> the interests of all participants.
> You have heard of game theory and the prisoner's dilemma for example.
> The market may lead to a dilemma situation.

This is doubtful; the market is much better modeled by an "iterated
prisoner's dilemma" than the classic "prisoner's dilemma". Actually,
IPD is not a true dilemma, because the optimal solution in the widest
variety of cases is well known to be the "Tit for Tat" strategy, which
causes no unfortunate results for two users of it.

> It has no moral qualities, it is not foreseeable.
> A dilemma is inelcutable, you can't rely on the free will of even a benevolent
> majority to overcome it, because any act of good will will immediately benefit
> the malevolent prisoner and in the end hurt both prisoners.
> Your value system however does not allow you to exert force on the
> malevolent prisoner.  Thus you must accept the death of both prisoners.
> Is that right?

Nope, see above regarding IPD.

I don't have time to get into the other parts of your post right now.

 - Maciej



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From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/17
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