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I love the comparison of Mollison's book to Microsoft Windows...   
That's certainly enough to scare me away from wanting to read it  
(being a Mac fanboy).  :)


this from a recent BOINGBOING post  (which simply verifies a number of  
other studies of the same ilk)..


Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music

http://boingboing.net/2009/11/01/heavy-illegal-downlo.html

A new British independent poll conducted by Ipsos Mori concluded that  
the people who do the most illegal downloading also buy the most  
music. This is in line with many other studies elsewhere and is easy  
to understand: people who are music superfans do more ofeverything to  
do with music: they see more live shows, listen to more radio, buy  
more CDs, buy more botlegs of live shows, buy more t-shirts, talk  
about music more, do more downloading -- all of it.
And of course, these are the people the music industry's supergeniuses  
have set their sights upon for bizarre enforcement regimes like the  
one that British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has promised:  
anyone who lives in a house that generates three or more copyright  
infringement notices will be barred from Internet access.

"The latest approach from the Government will not help prop up an  
ailing music industry. Politicians and music companies need to  
recognise that the nature of music consumption has changed, and  
consumers are demanding lower prices and easier access," said Peter  
Bradwell, from the think-tank Demos, which commissioned the new poll  
conducted by Ipsos Mori.
However, music industry figures insist the figures offer a skewed  
picture. The poll suggested the Government's plan to disconnect  
illegal downloaders if they ignore official warning letters could  
deter people from internet piracy, with 61 per cent of illegal  
downloaders surveyed admitting they would be put off downloading music  
illegally by the threat of having their internet service cut off for a  
month.

"The people who file-share are the ones who are interested in music,"  
said Mark Mulligan of Forrester Research. "They use file-sharing as a  
discovery mechanism. We have a generation of young people who don't  
have any concept of music as a paid-for commodity," he continued. "You  
need to have it at a price point you won't notice."

On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Scott Pittman wrote:

> Mozilla would have never happened if it had started by publishing
> Microsoft's platform on line but they accomplished what they  
> intended by
> creating a better platform and people contributed and supported it.