Microsoft's fear of free software

[Brad De Long]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 12:36 AM
>Subject: Re: Microsoft's fear of free software
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>[Open-source software]
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>>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.
>
>
>You could have talked about the Internet itself. But "non-market" is
>inappropriate to both contexts.
>
>Nothing in the OSS concept prevents people from making money: in the words
>of the folks at the Free Software Foundation (e.g., see
>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html ), "'Free software' is a
>matter of liberty, not price.

So you think that Linus Torvalds is primarily out to make a lot of money?

Very strange belief...

Brad DeLong