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To: Dermot Burke who wrote (18457)	4/14/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 24154

Dermot, >>Her's a real goodie.The microphiles will love this.Too bad John Dowd has been absent because he would like the implications. >> Perhaps dan can conjure John and Regimond up for this one:http://www.salon1999.com/21st/ Cheap software is bad for the economy because it frees up resources and consumer dollars which can then be better spent on such frivolous things as increased bandwidth! Why pay $109 for that scanner you've been eyeing when you can use it to get IE for free! Cheers, Norm

To: Dermot Burke who wrote (18457)	4/14/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Sentiment Growing for Freeware nytimes.com Dermot, here's an article from Monday's NYT on the "free software summit" that Raymond talked about in the salon piece. I'm not going to go into either article, just state a few quick points. First, before Microsoft and the PC, source access to the OS was the rule, not the exception, at least for the systems guys. Not just for Unix, for most mainframe vendor OSs too. It had a lot to do with the maintenance problems Raymond talks about, which haven't exactly gone away with Windows. Second, politically these guys aren't exactly bleeding heart commies. I remember some truly, um, unusual usenet dialogue by Eric Raymond where he managed to fit his relationship with his girlfriend into the libertarian economic model. I don't know any of these guys directly, but the ones I've seen anything political from, it's usually off in the libertarian wilderness. I guess they never quite made the leap to full blown Objectivism, though. Cheers, Dan.