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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2000 18:14:15 -0500
From:      "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000513181415.00890300@mail85.pair.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000514041848.K22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 04:18 14-05-2000 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>by borrowing ideas you don't decrease the number of ideas
>in the world.

Sure you do! If you expect your ideas to be stolen with no rewards to you,
soon you will stop coming up with new ideas. Not because you lost your
ability but because you have no motivation.

This is precisely why former Communist countries were such a failure
economically. There was no reward for innovation, so there was no
innovation. Now we see a surge of creativity coming out of there. It was
not born overnight. It was always there, but it stayed dormant.

Adam


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