“Productive Harmony” couldn’t be further from the reality of constant “Systemic Threat”. The Relationship of Markets and Commons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYorzUKYZUQ

Markets and Commons can co-exist, but they don’t, and ideally we don’t want them to exist in such close relationship, due to power imbalance. The effects of this cosy relationship between power and powerlessness is displayed by Eric Raymond’s identity crisis and reactionary rebuttal. Completely co-opted he perceives Open Source as virtually synonymous with Capitalism, any competing alternative is a direct threat to his being, to be defended with malice and passed off as “Communism”.

Reputation plays only a very small role in the free software commons. Most users don’t have a clue who writes the software they use. For developers it’s also of little relevance as the qualities of the software itself are what attracts them. This is the beauty of the commons – people don’t have to pay homage to individuals as they do in a market.

Eric admits that the commons are in conflict with concentrated capital. Unfortunately for us, this is precisely what markets produce over time. The market dominance of Microsoft and Apple had nothing to do with government involvement.