I am not mumbling nonsense.
I never said anything about peer review. Peer review is fine. Indeed, it is necessary to have peer review.
All I said was that knowledge is a commodity. You don't lose knowledge by sharing it, but you do lose the ability to profit from it. If not completely, you do lose your leverage. i.e. your chances of making profit or the amount of profit that you can make from it.
And please don't try to apply the Open Source Software principle to knowledge. OSS can be free as long as the company creating it profits from services. There are no services related to knowledge.
As another poster has pointed out, one can stockpile knowledge. I have been doing that for 22 years.
Never said it is a commodity JUST AS bread is. However, developing knowledge (research) costs money and time. And hence it is a commodity. Which can be traded for profit. Which is expected since money and time are required to develop it in the first place. The issue is pretty simple. If anything costs money to develop, it is only fair to expect to make a profit on its trade.
Knowledge is a commodity. It is used in return for money. Money buys other commodities.
Also, you can use money to buy knowledge.
If it can be bought and sold for / by money, it is a commodity. And those who wish to profit from their knowledge must be free to do so.
The newer stuff he gets may be better, but he may be running an old OS which does not support onboard graphics or sound or network.
In that case he has no option but to continue using his old network card / display card / whatever.
Especially if he cannot afford to upgrade the OS (various reasons - software won't work on the new one, upgrade not available) etc. etc.
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I am not mumbling nonsense. I never said anything about peer review. Peer review is fine. Indeed, it is necessary to have peer review. All I said was that knowledge is a commodity. You don't lose knowledge by sharing it, but you do lose the ability to profit from it. If not completely, you do lose your leverage. i.e. your chances of making profit or the amount of profit that you can make from it. And please don't try to apply the Open Source Software principle to knowledge. OSS can be free as long as the company creating it profits from services. There are no services related to knowledge. As another poster has pointed out, one can stockpile knowledge. I have been doing that for 22 years.
Never said it is a commodity JUST AS bread is. However, developing knowledge (research) costs money and time. And hence it is a commodity. Which can be traded for profit. Which is expected since money and time are required to develop it in the first place. The issue is pretty simple. If anything costs money to develop, it is only fair to expect to make a profit on its trade.
Knowledge is a commodity. It is used in return for money. Money buys other commodities. Also, you can use money to buy knowledge. If it can be bought and sold for / by money, it is a commodity. And those who wish to profit from their knowledge must be free to do so.
Only give out your regular email address to PEOPLE you communicate with.
Use a random yahoo / hotmail / whatever works for you email address for websites that require it for registration purposes.
I've been using my gmail address this way for months now and still haven't had a single incident of SPAM.
The newer stuff he gets may be better, but he may be running an old OS which does not support onboard graphics or sound or network. In that case he has no option but to continue using his old network card / display card / whatever. Especially if he cannot afford to upgrade the OS (various reasons - software won't work on the new one, upgrade not available) etc. etc.