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TheLong-TermCostsOfZeroMarginalCost 6 - 06 Oct 2009 - Main.EbenMoglen
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  • This is not correct, because you have again made the counter-factual assumption that people don't get paid for making goods that are produced in commons. As I pointed out last class, when nobody was listening because they were all so busy talking at the tops of their lungs about irrelevancies, free software is integral to more than $100 billion in annual global commerce. Large firms pay thousands of people to work on free software, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people who earn money in all areas of IT and who work on free software in their non-salaried time, as well as hundreds of thousands, now millions, of students who work on free software as a way of learning. You have invented a world in which your questions are meaningful rather than asking meningful questions about the actual world in which you live, and about which I am trying to teach you. Does that seem smart to you?
 

I could be wrong, but I bet most programmers in industry don't work on out-of-the-box consumer software, but rather making custom applications for businesses. That work won't go away as the plug is gradually pulled on software as a consumer good. It is, however, hard to seriously argue with the conclusion that MSFT and Oracle employ a lot of programmers, and if you set their revenue to zero, they will employ a lot fewer.

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 Nikolaos -- the comments you reacted to are Steven's comments, not mine! smile

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  • Everything below Steven's initial comments makes the same mistakes he made, and is useless for the same reasons.
 
 
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