Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:14:28PM -0500, Bob Munck wrote:
> > Huh? You call people "points?"
[...]
> Regardless: applying this sort of analysis to open-source software
> like Linux is pointless: it's *free*. AFAIK, the traditional
> ways of evaluating cost don't deal with a gift economy, and that
> seems to be what is at work here.
[...]
One has to be very careful in proclaiming the arrival of new laws of
nature. Even in a gift economy, production consumes resources (like
programmer time). The fact that it's a different business model,
doesn't necessarily mean the underlying production technology is that
much different.
:*CU#
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