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From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(And certainly no one is going to fall for this logic: "A young
student in Finland is asking for donations for an alternate operating
system he plans to develop. If enough people send him $1 he'll
deliver something he plans to call "Linux"
Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s. Suppose you know
100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all aggree to pay $1 upfront for the
release of the next album then it is released. If the artist does their job - and
keeps turning out good albums people
At 03:25 AM 5/12/00 -0400, Anonymous wrote:
Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s.
Suppose you know 100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all
aggree to pay $1 upfront for the release of the next album then it is
released. If the artist does their job -
At 3:25 AM -0400 5/12/00, Anonymous wrote:
Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for
MP3s. Suppose you know 100,000 people like a particular artist. If
they all aggree to pay $1 upfront for the release of the next album
then it is released. If the artist does their job -
At 12:24 PM -0400 on 5/12/00, Jim Burnes wrote:
Robert Hettinga has been talking about this sort of thing for years
now.
Incessantly, some might add. :-).
...And, of course, the idea is at least as old as the universe itself. I
stole it, freely, from Hughes, and the "silk road" bunch, ad
