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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 Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're just another Anonymous apologist Coward, fucking up in public without even noticing that you're a menace. The Taliban were the Pakistani ISI secret service taking over Afghanistan to ensure their clients, Al Qaeda, could operate safely. Everyone involved, including the Economist staff who'd also supported the mujahideen created by the ISI's CIA backers, could have predicted their ruthless rule, and inevitable biting their incompetent masters' hand. "Emotional and ideological"? I find the Economist's lies sickening, because I have a memory of their criminal complicity. Your excuse for your denial is that "everyone who watches good TV and spent real money on college likes them"? Fascist poser, that's why I titled my post "in-crowd". But you're too deluded to even notice. I expect you also believe the late-Taliban coverup lies like "no one could have anticipated they'd slam planes into buildings". Your lies are so dated, only real cowards repeat them anymore, Anonymous taliban Coward.

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  2. Re:My favorite Economist article by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

    These jokes are, of course, the way that they put out their agenda in a way that otherwise would alienate people, going "too far". The funniest self-parodies are the most deadly accurate.

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  3. Re:Thoughts on sharing by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Time, Code... money, marketing, feature requests, testing, bug reports, bandwidth, peer support, corperate support, idea farming.

    Not to belittle you code guys, but thinking just cuz there's no support behind you doesn't make it so.

    I know it's slashdot and it's all about the coders, but quite frankly every day I put up with coders running in circles because they don't know how to make a decent product. Guess why? Because you don't listen to the rest of the team...