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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2000 22:47:31 -0700
From:      Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Ethics of Free Software
Message-ID:  <20000523224731.A16545@sharmas.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000524101006.A29351@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from Rahul Siddharthan on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:10:06AM %2B0530
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:10:06AM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Doug Barton said on May 23, 2000 at 18:34:55:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > 	My purpose in posting to this thread at all was merely to point
> > out that there is another view, so that people who don't have a background
> > in economics are not tempted to take the "There's only one pie, and it's
> > always going to be the same size" argument seriously. 
> 
> And this, by the way, is the archetypical communist argument.  They
> want to redistribute wealth because they think you can only become
> rich at the expense of someone else.

I don't have a formal training in economics. But common sense tells me
that if everyone multiplies their wealth by 100x, the world is 
essentially unchanged and the economy would've expanded by 100x.

Strategic inflection points, as Andy Grove famously called them, don't
happen everyday.

I find the communist bashing and repeated references to their stupidity
a bit amusing. Even Meyer's article had references to it. After reading
some of these discussions, "You're a communist", sounds worse tha
"you're a filthy dimwit bastard, with no morality" :) Stallman, Linus
and every major personality seems to be afraid of the term, even when
they share some of the same philosophy. 

http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2574952,00.html

BTW, Mr Leibovitch makes the mistake of equating open source with GPL
in his reference to Pedro's Daemonnews article. Slashdot gets away
with it repeatedly. Does anyone have good suggestions to make the
distinction clear to the masses ? Web page button ? gplisnotopensource.org ?

	-Arun


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