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To: BGR who wrote (55033)	4/7/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

bgr, i think your premise is broken. this game is about anticipating trends - good or bad. sometimes trends are bad. if so, then it is time to address that and not stick ones head where the sun don't shine just because there isn't the rah, rah and pom poms from the hypesters. the damage that will occur to our economy will have been caused by the likes of you. the likes of me are cautious in nature. the likes of you spend b/c it feels good and anything else is mean spirited. the nikkei hit 39k based on the backs of the optimists. that fact has tortured their economy ever since and it wasn't the bears' faults. it was the unrealistic go go folks who thought reasonableness during good times was evil. you won't see it hit, but i assure you that debt can't go up in double digits forever w/o serious consequences. money supply can't crank out at double digits. and stupid money can't keep making money.

To: BGR who wrote (55033)	4/7/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

It is a realistic precedent; check out some L-centric web sites and look under the links that talk about 'hacker gift culture' and the like. As the GNOME guy said, software is just math, and math is (or should be) cheap. In the absence of scarcity -- what does it cost to copy a program? -- a gift-based economy makes more sense than the Microsoft tax. But then again, as you may guess from my chosen pseudonym, I'm a bit of an idealist. I may turn out to be wrong. Cheers, -mb

To: BGR who wrote (55033)	4/7/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: Annette	Respond to of 132070

OT-- NAVR is now the official distributor of LINUX....