From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 18: 2:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEA837B5E8 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA50291; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:02:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Arun Sharma , Rahul Siddharthan Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000523175904.0443caa0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:42 PM 5/23/2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, there is a flaw in THIS argument, too: it goes > > > to the other extreme. While the pie can be enlarged, it is not > > > infinitely expandable. > > > > Many brilliant economists would vehemently disagree with > >you. Chief among them is Arthur Laffer. > > Sorry, but the more famous an economist is, the more likely it > is that he represents a "religion" rather than realistic, proven > theory. All systems have limits, and any statement to the contrary > is absurd. Right. And man was never meant to fly, either. I realize that arguing this point with you is silly because you just don't have the background to understand how little about this topic you understand, so I won't try further. > > You're flattering yourself if you think that the GPL is having > >_that_ significant an impact right now. > > Flattering "yourself?" How so? See above. -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message