Microsoft's fear of free software

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Nov 4 07:56:39 PST 1998



>Not being a techie, I've been slow on the uptake re the mortal threat
>LINUX and other free, open-source software that can created and
>distributed via the Web present Microsoft. The link below shows a memo
>written by Microsoft engineer Vinod Valloppillil re this. (I apologize
>if this has already been posted here and I simply missed it).
>Carl Remick

It's neat, isn't it?

Now in class I can point to *modern* examples of anarchic, non-market economic organizations--rather than having to talk about the Kula chains of the Pacific Islanders.

Brad DeLong



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