Re: [ox-en] Re: Open Money?
- From: "B. Fallenstein" <b.fallenstein gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:25:36 +0100
Hi ernie, others,
ernie yacub wrote:
>This delimits exchange from unidirectional flows such as we see in Free
Software.
If fs developers give their work away and receive nothing in exchange, how
are they to live? How will we all live without the means to buy the
necessities of life?
-- irony on --
If fs developers give there work away and will not accept anything in
exchange, how can we obtain software? How can we buy software if the
ones who could sell it give it away for free instead?
-- irony off --
Is that really so hard to see? ;-) If the necessities of life are
available in unidirectional flow, i.e. without directly giving anything
back, you just take them.
- Benja
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