On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 05:19:40PM -0600, Gregory Carter wrote: > On 12/05/2012 02:22 AM, Dieter BSD wrote: > >Gregory writes: > >>I consider LINUX to be the state of the art reference for _ALL_ > >>engineering
<flameage snipped> > The rules and the way for effective competition and fair trade is > laid out in how every piece of science and technology that is either > enabled with LINUX or how it was designed 10 years ago to how it is > being designed RIGHT NOW. Let me suggest that if someone were to re-license a *BSD version under the AGPLv3, and run it on hardware with an AGPLv3 license, this would become the start of the art reference platform for engineering design, and if the *individuals* backing it marketed it properly, it would replace Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook as the greatest wealth *creation* in recorded history. Every major technology company to date has been a wealth *transfer* from those who accept the license terms and pay money to those who control the distribution of said software. There was a significant amount of wealth 'creation', but it was always based on a percentage of some existing transaction, or because of some artificial scarcity in the hardware required to run it. A real 'Libre' free software and hardware ecosystem opens the door to unlimited wealth *creation* because there are, by design of the GPL style licenses, *no* required license fees. You'll pay for the time of the designers, and support people, and testing. But there's no artificial scarcity of good code or good hardware. All of this stuff still requires electricity, and once you realize Libre hardware can extend all the way to instructions for manufacturing solar panels, you'll realize it's more about the people and what motivates them rather than monetary abstractions of human motivation. Sufficiently bright investors looking for a monetary return will eventually figure this out, and sufficiently bright developers of technology will eventually figure out how to implement finance-bypass and connect directly with the bright investors instead of handing over 90% of the value-creation chain to middlemen. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
