I wrote: > How is information destroyed by being replicated many times? will trillich writes: > 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'. You are creating a false dichotomy. It doesn't matter how many people don't contribute. It only matters how many _do_. Which would you rather have: a billion users and a million contributors, or a thousand users and a hundred contributors? > 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. Markets are about scarcity. There is no scarcity of copies of free software. Each additional user of pppconfig costs me absolutely _nothing_. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
