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Article #1168Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Jerry Lynn Kreps
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
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Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: with typo's corrected
>
> Decklin Foster wrote:
> >
> > Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:
> >
> > > Again, it definitely happens in agriculture, which I think might be a
> > > better model.
> >
> > How? Agriculture is doing the same, basically unchanged for years,
> > thing over and over again. Science is making pains *not* to reinvent
> > the wheel. Which are we?
> >
>
> Decklin,
> Are you a successful farmer? If there is one profession that has
> experienced MANY changes of the last 30 years it is agriculture, in the
> USA at least.
> Farming has such a lot rate of return that if farmers don't stay on the
low
> cutting edge of technology they don't have a ghost of a chance of
> remaining profitable. There is one area of farming that is rapidly
> fading away, though, and that is the one-man, 640 acre farm. Even at
> 200+ bushels per acre there isn't enough (if any) profit per bushel to
> support one family per section of land. Many seasons there isn't ANY
> profit, even with the best high-tech tools around. Only a corporation
> can't write off such losses and stay in business. (How corporations
can
> like Cargil manipulate the commodity market to drive out the small
> farmer is another problem which has led to corn prices being the lowest
> they've been in 50 years and cereal at the supermarket costing the
> highest they've ever been.)
> Jerry
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