From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:11:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1130364688 217.209.116.179 (Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:11:28 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:11:28 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5966 Date: 2005-10-26T22:11:28+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>> "Public goods" is a technical economics term, not a reference >>>to GPL or "Free software". > >>I don't care whether it's a technical economics term or a martian >>politics term. You used it about GPL'd programs. > > Actually, I didn't use it about GPL'd programs. You used it to draw a conclusion, like so: Steve: In 5 to 100 years all programs will be GPL'd. economists: Only [category B] will pay programmers to produce public goods programs. Tom: So in 5 to 100 years programmers will be employees of [category B]? (Statements condensed for clarity.) There's a hidden assumption in that argument, namely that "GPL'd" is a subset of "public goods". If GPL'd programs aren't public goods, then your conclusion about who will pay programmers is invalid. > As you said about words in another thread > >>This is what happens when we take words like "buy" (or "steal") that >>apply to material objects, and try to use them on information such as The thought has indeed crossed my mind that maybe the term "public goods", or the economic theory you referenced, is only relevant to material goods. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu