On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:28:04PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > 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?
good catch. grammar, semantics, vocabulary. sloppily used, begets slopy thought. <sarcasm=none>nice job -- i stand corrected!</> that was my intended point, but i mis-worded it. > > 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_. and each additional contributor enriches you (me, us) unmeasurably. -- don't visit this page. it's bad for you. take my expert word for it. http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2001/03/21/spring/index1.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
