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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 01:36:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Subject:   Re: The Ethics of Free Software
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005300134190.62245-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200005250137.SAA12207@usr05.primenet.com>

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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Consider that for wealth to exist, it must be accounted, and
> there are a finite number of particles in the universe.  Now

Actually this second clause is invalid: particles can be arbitrarily
pair-created from the vacuum :-) I don't even think it's known whether
energy conservation holds on a global (universal) scale.

Kris

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