Making Money in Digital Money

[Jim Choate]

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:
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> >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.
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> 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.


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