1984
HBS WORKING PAPER
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Working Paper · No. 84/013
The Value of Open Source Software: A New Institutional Economics Perspective
A Working Paper for Discussion
November 1984
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On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life.
On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
So you have these two fighting against each other.
Stewart Brand  ·  Steve Wozniak
At the First Hackers Conference, 1984
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