[Discussioni] [Fwd: My Lengthy Harangue (was advice sought (really: fundraiser status))]

[Marco A. Calamari]

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At 09.16 31/07/02 +0200, you wrote:

Interessante, istruttiva, e sopratutto totalmente vera
 (almeno nella mia esperienza di lavoro in Italia e
 negli S.U.)

FWIW.  Ciao.   Marco

** Questa mi sembra molto interessante, una cosa su cui meditare.
** 
** Simo.
** 
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** 
** From: Bill White <bill.white a griggsinst.com>
** To: Jean_camp a harvard.edu
** Cc: fsb a crynwr.com
** Subject: My Lengthy Harangue (was advice sought (really: fundraiser status)=
** )
** Date: 30 Jul 2002 15:19:15 -0400
** 
** On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:49, L Jean Camp wrote:
** > But this is not a performance art, or if it is a 0 marginal cost performi=
** ng=20
** > art.
** Please explain why this is relevant.  He's doin' something and people
** aren't payin' him.  Many people want to do things for which there should
** be financial support, but for which there just isn't.
** 
** I think this list would have less discussion and more sense if there
** were fewer economists on it.  An economist create a lovely, complicated
** explanation of what happens when SW is free, filled with terms with vary
** narrow meaning, like "marginal cost" or "network exterality" or "price
** elasticity".  A non-economist would say "They didn't send me a bill, so
** I'm not paying."   If you don't charge for something, people won't pay
** you.
** 
** >From my standpoint, as a practicing engineer with 20 years of
** programming experience, and no years of economic experience, the only
** reason free SW makes sense is that business is not really about profit
** after all.  That is, businesses with more than about 50 employees are
** not about profit.  They are about people carving out territory.  Let me
** give you an example, which is just one of many.

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