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> the others are worse

I think we need more experimentation with solutions to the (open-source) public goods problem before we can say that the others are worse. Ditto with experimentation on variants of democracy. Significantly harder to experiment with that than with open source funding though.

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Open source is pretty successful if you include the plethora of knowledge it provides to new developers. It is difficult to quantify and it is symptomatic that there is litte prestige in commiting to any open source project.

I don't really get the democracy comment.

I would think experimenting with variants of democracy would be a more frequent event. Consider the small scale class president or family voting for a movie.

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