One might argue that trying to legislate against greed is pointless and harmful. No matter how much time, effort, and thought you put into legislation to prevent these issues it is likely to keep happening. And thus all you've really accomplished is penalizing everyone else that are ethical and play by the rules. What is the solution?

Joe Brockmeier recently wrote A Good Company Looks Like A Good Open Source Project. In his article, Brockmeier discusses various practices of successful open source projects and notes how companies would benefit from these same practices. I am inclined to agree with Brockmeier and have covered this theme before in blogs such as Nine things developers want more than money (one of my favourites).

I'd recently wrote a guest blog at TheCodeFactory discussing this theme and noting how Transparency is kryptonite to fight corruption and incompetency . It seems reasonable that transparency is a more potent weapon against corruption.