From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 16:42:28 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 9245437B513 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 16:42:25 -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 QAA49957; Tue, 23 May 2000 16:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:42:21 -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: <4.3.1.2.20000523115749.04536980@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 11:10 AM 5/23/2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > This is one of the fundamental flaws in most of the arguments put forth > >on this topic so far. There IS NO total amount of money to be made. The > >opportunity to expand the pie is always present, > > 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. > There is a definite limit to the rate at which the pie can grow, This is actually true, and Alan Greenspan has done a good job of keeping the rate of growth level. > especially > with the GPL actively eliminating opportunities for new ventures. You're flattering yourself if you think that the GPL is having _that_ significant an impact right now. There is just too much code out there right now that is not contaminated by it to work with. Doug -- "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