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- From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Free Software
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:40:25 -0400
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On 10/26/07, Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:
> On Friday 26 October 2007, zuzu wrote:
> > I don't mean to blithely dismiss this much writing without considering
> > it more, but after my first reading you seem to implicitly assume that
> > economics is a zero-sum game. perhaps this is because you're
> > challenging the assumption that all trade is both-benefit?
>
> The last paragraph in particular expresses the opinion that there is no need
> for this to be a zero-sum game.
"we can't rely on our intellect as our only export to the world, since
as they begin to supply "intellectual capital" themselves, there is
much less demand for ours."
I read that to have the opposite meaning, as if there's only a finite
demand for "intellectual capital"; hence a "zero-sum" view.
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