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From: aaronsw <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Fuzzy Math
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:01:22 -0000
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URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000616
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Date: 2002-09-25T18:54:10-06:00
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One of the weirdest things I heard when listening to the Cato Institute debate
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was an economist claim "a tenet of my profession is that people won't pay for
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something they can get for free." Someone objected, using the analogy of
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bottled water. There's a far better example: The New York Times.
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Incredibly, this institution puts out pages and pages of high-quality
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professional content each week and then distributes them by means of men in
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trucks across the country overnight where they sit, waiting to be sold to
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people. Meanwhile, the exact same content is available _for free_ using an
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insidious peer-to-peer downloading system called "the Web" by typing in the
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keyword "www.nytimes.com". Those people at the New York Times must not
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understand the Internet or something!
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More examples: the thriving shareware market, the Baen Free Library, Janis Ian
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and others.
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Other times, people claim that no one will create if they can't get paid. I'd
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like to introduce you to free software and just about every weblog on the
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planet.
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