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The Economist On The Economics of Sharing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-kindergarten-teacher-was-right dept.

RCulpepper writes "The Economist, reliably the most insightful English-language news publication, discusses the economics of sharing, from OSS programmers' sharing time, to P2P users' sharing disk space and bandwidth. " True indeed (about The Economist, I have to remember to renew my subscription); one of the main supports for the article comes from Yochai Benkler latest piece, which is excellent.

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  1. Re:in-crowd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, The Economist is well thought of by most people with intellects above that of reality TV watchers, and with educations beyond four years at city college, so we'll let your highly emotional and ideological judgement of them collapse on its own merits.

    As for cheering the Taliban initially, at the time, the Taliban was the lesser of two evils. The mujahideen leaders were just squabbling back and forth while their guerilla forces did as they pleased to the citizens. The Taliban brought order into chaos. Then, as always happens when you have power in the hands of the few, it pretty much went downhill from there.

    But you're just another dumbass criticizing people in the past for not knowing what the future would bring in a chaotic situation. Hindsight is 20-20 and all that.

  2. Re:Imagine a different kind of sharing... by ashot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    or even worse that food goes to waste with a 5th of the world hungry and 24,000 people dying daily of starvation..

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  3. Re:Sure... by Loco3KGT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hell the Economist isn't even that much of a "news organization." None of my Economics teachers in college read it because they couldn't stand the liberal slant in it. AND THEY WERE DEMOCRATS.

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  4. Re:The rest are just worse. by Donald+Hughes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Really? That's interesting. Well, then let me correct my statement: I don't believe Cisco to be an evil corporation.