O’Reilly’s ONLamp has a great article which is most interesting. The premise is that Open Source software includes support options instead of support futures. I love it:

[Open source is] converting warrants on future maintenance and enhancements into options, which means that instead of having a sole supplier (warrants), we have created a third-party market (options) of these derivatives.

How capitalistic is that?

Very well said indeed. Found it from here.