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In article <F0oCx2.756@a2e.de>, PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de> wrote:
>I don't understand your solution at all.  The Market clearly decides that
>it wants closed monopolistic software and doesn't give a damn about source
>code.

This would explain why Apache, although a noble effort, was completely
ignored in favor of things like Netscape's server, or Microsoft's.

>When speaking about The Market, you can't be referring to any real
>existing markets at least.

This coming from someone who claims that markets always select for closed
software?

>So introducing e-money into HTTP might be the single most important boost
>that one can give to free software funding.  It wouldn't make the Market
>more favorable to OpenSource, but it would remove the dependency on
>sponsoring and allow the street music funding approach (which is also not a
>capitalist approach) to have a chance of working.

Street music funding seems fairly capitalist to me.  No one has to pay,
no one has to provide, if people want to, they can exchange goods on whatever
terms are convenient to them.

The market is *very* much for open source, it's just not instantaneous.

-s
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