"S. Sampson" wrote in message
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"Charles Brabham" wrote

http://www.techcentralstation.com/012204A.html

"virtually irrelevant to an investment-centered economy."--
James V. DeLong, Washington DC based Lawyer, and
Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property.

"Linux" (the OS) is about 1% of what you get in any Linux
distribution. snip

.... which would have been a relavant reply if Mr. DeLong had said "virtually
irrelevant to an investment-centered economy." as a description of Linux.

What he actually said was:

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"The open source theorists know perfectly well that the model might
translate to academia, but not beyond that. In fact, they have another model
in mind, which is to make content free, tax the hardware industry, and then
distribute the revenues to the creative community according to some
complicated government-run formula. (See the work of the Berkman Center, or
the Electronic Frontier Foundation.) To even think about this produces a
shudder, given the government's unblemished and bipartisan record of pork,
politics, and destruction in every industry it touches. (Think schools,
energy, telecom.) It is also not even open source, particularly; it is just
socialization of the creative sector.

The big question is, Why would anyone want to go down this road? As noted
before in these pages, the concept that "price should equal marginal cost
even when that is zero" is a product of an artificial logic from which all
the reality has been stripped, and is virtually irrelevant to an
investment-centered economy. "

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He commented on the socialization of the creative sector, not directly about
Linux OS, as your confused and confusing reply - implies.

Charles, N5PVL