On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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At 10:30 PM +0200 4/28/03, Nomen Nescio waxed all Fermi on us and popped his bulb with the following bit of incandescence:
Well, here's a clue, folks: information goods are free today. You can't build a digital money system on paying for information goods, in a world where people expect to get their information goods for free.
Who here actually believes that digital goods and services are actually free to produce?
Irrelevant and most decidedly -not- the point he was addressing. A weak strawman at best is what you offer. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------