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From:         Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@VOTI.NL>
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>         And I'm free to point out what the economical
> consequences of OSS
> are. You don't  like to hear it, so you try to prove that I
> don't know what
> capitalism is. Good. Please  drop me an email when the world
> turns into a
> "gift economy".

As things are never 100% I think I'll do that now: (partial) gift
enconomies exist, today, and have existed for a long time. I can't be
certain of the future, but they will probably exist too.

I am not sure I am interested in discussing the economic consequences of
OSS. I'd rather discuss the (economic and other) consequences of
software monopolies.

Wouter van Ooijen

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