----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: RE: Open Source capitalists
> Phoo. Isn't it obvious? The marginal cost of
> providing finished code is zero. Anyone who
> uses it does not reduce its utility to others--
> sometimes the opposite (i.e., user groups).
> And it's hard to prevent its dissemination.
> Code is a public good.
>
> mbs
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Code can never be finished in a Godelian world and we have no idea how
much information is coded already in space-time, waiting to be
transformed into the commodity code via an increase in our
epistemic-ecological-electronical abilities. So dot.communism has a
bright future if Gates et al don't create Borg-ish labor relations via
their Ferenghi Business School model.
< http://www.wolframscience.com/ >
Ian