Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:59:23PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Jaldhar H. Vyas writes:
> > Or a more apt analogy: Linux is like a village common.
>
> No. A common is a scarce resource. Software isn't.
i don't think jaldha was talking about the software, but rather the
environment behind the linux phenomenon.
> > If too many people take from a public resource without giving back, it
> > swiftly gets destroyed.
>
> How is information destroyed by being replicated many times?
it's not. the RESOURCE will dry up.
if everybody takes and nobody gives. imagine the debian team --
their time spent, unappreciated, unrewarded, unrecognized. they'd
go elsewhere (or at least underground) without a community based
on 'produce more than you consume'.
with linux, currency is 'and i helped'. with microso~1, currency
is 'reduce your bank account'. remove the currency from the
market, and the market -- not the products, but the market --
shrivels and dies.
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