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  • From: "Erik Sliman" <Erik AT OpenStandards.net>
  • To: "'De Bug'" <debug AT centras.lt>
  • Cc: <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Community_studios] RE:[DMCA_Discuss]Re:BPDG:BPDG report
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:36:47 -0400
  • Resent-date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 14:32:49 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
  • Resent-from: Erik AT OpenStandards.net

Bandwidth is still a cost of distribution, albeit small and shrinking. It
becomes evident when you click a link to a page referenced on Slashdot.org,
and you get a page saying the page's maximum bandwidth has been reached, so
the page is no longer available. It is also evident in the fact that most
of us don't host large files for fear it would cripple our websites.

Nevertheless, you are right, it is downright cheap, and approaching almost
nothing. Give me fiber or give me... err.. money? Yeah, give me money!


-----Original Message-----
From: De Bug [mailto:debug AT centras.lt]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:52 PM
To: Erik Sliman
Cc: community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [Community_studios] RE:[DMCA_Discuss]Re:BPDG:BPDG report


Hi Erik Sliman on 2002-06-06, 18:39:22 you wrote such a long letter :(
could you put it in fewer words ?
A couple comments if you please:
> Free open source appears to be an alternative,
>at least to price theory, since there often is no price.
Free software and open source stand not for price but for free and open
competition
>From the top to the bottom - all you have (source code , your ideas) are
subject to
the competition, are free and open to be used by others to compete with
everybody else (including you)
Where do you see "no price" here ?

>action? We produce and consume without a price to intervene.
Not exactlly, we (some of us at least) pay for developing the product and
then
everybody can copy and consume the copies.
> There are still costs, but the costs are often absorbed by
>volunteers.
There costs to produce information but
there is virtually no costs to copy the information.
And do you happen to know that volunteers do often get paid for what they
develope

P.S.
One should distinguish limited and unlimited resources/goods (information
is unlimited resource)
This is where the roots of the recent changes are

--
De Bug










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