>On 1/27/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>> There is also profit to be made in the servicing of software.
>
>Also, plenty gets written under scientific and research grants and
>such. I paid the rent for a couple years under such an arrangement.
>I'm pretty sure that's how the original internet software got written.
In other words, it's not a model for running a real economy, but for free-riding off a money economy financed by others?
Doug