Bill Gates welcomed the world to a new breed of “kinder capitalism” at Davos this week. Conveniently forgetting his past, Mr. Gates declared:
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
We have. It’s called open source. Open source is “kinder” by design, no matter how capitalistically/self-interestedly it is used. Here’s why:
BTW, I also blogged about this and have a small post discussing what Gates had say.
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