On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:59:23PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Jaldhar H. Vyas writes: > > Or a more apt analogy: Linux is like a village common. > > No. A common is a scarce resource. Software isn't.
i don't think jaldha was talking about the software, but rather the environment behind the linux phenomenon. > > If too many people take from a public resource without giving back, it > > swiftly gets destroyed. > > How is information destroyed by being replicated many times? it's not. the RESOURCE will dry up. if everybody takes and nobody gives. imagine the debian team -- their time spent, unappreciated, unrewarded, unrecognized. they'd go elsewhere (or at least underground) without a community based on 'produce more than you consume'. with linux, currency is 'and i helped'. with microso~1, currency is 'reduce your bank account'. remove the currency from the market, and the market -- not the products, but the market -- shrivels and dies. -- americans should never read anything so subversive as what's at http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2001/03/21/spring/index1.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
