Pranesh Prakash wrote, [on 4/28/2010 9:14 PM]: > Brilliant read. Good recounting of issues, thus a good way to introduce > people to this issue. Some problems: it is slightly presumptive (uhh, > other people *have* written, extensively I might add, about these very > issues, from the same economic perspectives), and it glosses over some > of the intense debates people have had over rivalry, excludability, > public goods and artificial state-granted monopolies.
Some of those debates have even happened on this list, including during the Great Napster Flamewar, which Chris Kelty wrote about [1] (though from a somewhat different perspective) Udhay [1] http://silk.arachnis.com/anthro/Recursive_Publics.pdf -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
