The Economist On The Economics of Sharing

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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Re:Independant

[Doc Ruby]

The Economist's constituents are just in competition with Berlusconi's personal economy, so they attack him. Not that they expect their people to abide by those principles themselves. They backed Kerry in a similar fashion: they liked his corporate policies, because they're sustainable, rather than Bush's, which are sacrificing the US for a very few corporations Bush actually represents. If you think you can argue that multinational corporate power is some kind of "sixties bugbear", then you are trapped in the sixties.