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To: elmatador who wrote (50448)	5/25/2004 3:19:23 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

A better title would be zero-sum knowledge countries. zero-sum refers to zero-sum games, with winners and losers, with the total gain for all participants equal to zero. A zero sum knowledge regime tries to keep information as a privilege. If I know something, why should I tell you ? example - Keeping spread of SARS in (Toronto hospitals, Southern China) a secret. Keeping CIA terrorist list from FBI and Immigration. Egyptian priests keeping calendar secret. Chernobyl- Operators did not know reactor was unstable at low power....really. The opposite is spreading information to get network effects and benefit the whole society (nation or world) examples- Here's how to connect a modem to a serial port Here's our genetic map of the SARS virus from HK research hospital. Here's our latest weather report on a hurricane which isn't supposed to exist in the South Atlantic with satellite picture. Open source software. Interoperal standards, TCP/IP, WiFi , ASCII