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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
  • To: "Erik Sliman" <Erik AT OpenStandards.net>
  • Cc: <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Community_studios] RE:[DMCA_Discuss]Re:BPDG:BPDG report
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:59:16 -0700

Hi, Erik: The man's in Italy. It's not the same, there.
Tom

On Thursday 06 June 2002 11:36, Erik Sliman wrote:
> 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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